Under the assumption that the artificial viscosity coefficient at the propagating crack tip
is in inverse proportion to power law of the plastic strain rate, a rate-sensitive constitutive
relationship is derived for perfect elastic-plastic material. With the adoption of the rate-sensitive
constitutive relationship, it is asymptotically investigated the propagating tip fields of plane strain
mode I. And the quasi-static equations are obtained separately governing the stress and strain fields
at the crack-tip by means of Airy stress function. Numerical calculations of governing equations are
carried out by double parameters shooting, with selections of appropriate values of each
characteristic parameter by combinations of boundary, and the fully continuous stress-strain fields
are obtained at the crack-tip. The analytical and computational results indicate that viscosity effect
is an important factor in crack-tip fields.