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The evolution of stress intensity factors in the propagation of two dimensional cracks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2000

AVNER FRIEDMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
BEI HU
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
JUAN J. L. VELAZQUEZ
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matematica Aplicada, Facultad de Matematicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to describe a technique based on matched asymptotic expansions that allows us to derive the variation of the stress intensity factors in a homogeneous isotropic elastic medium under plane strain deformation. The case of antiplane shearing is also considered.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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