Numerical Simulation on Elastic-plastic Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior

Technical Note On numerical analysis of damage evolution in cyclic elastic–plastic crack growth problems

The Elastic-plastic Mechanics of Crack Extension

This paper briefly reviews progres~ in the elastic plastic analysis of crack extension. Analytical results for plane strain and plane stress deformation fields are noted, and elastic-plastic fracture instability as well as transitional behavior and combined rate and thermal effects are discussed.

Continuing Crack-tip Deformation and Fracture for Plane-strain Crack Growth in Elastic-plastic Solids

ANALYSIS of the deformation field consistent with a Prandtl stress distribution travelling with an advancing plane-strain crack reveals the functional form of the near tip crack profile in an elastic-plastic solid. The crack opening 6 is shown to have the form 6 N r In (const./r) at a distance r from the tip. This observation coupled with data generated from finite element investigations of gro...

Numerical modelling of elastic-plastic deformation at crack tips in composite material under stress wave loading

The paper deals with the elastic-plastic wave propagations in an anisotropic material subjected to impact loading with emphasis on an ideal fibre-reinforced cubic material under two-dimensional plane strain condition. The system of partial differential equations is hyperbolic. Therefore a characteristic-based difference method is proposed to calculate the formation of the plastic zone at the cr...

Analyses of Fatigue Crack Growth and Closure Near Threshold Conditions for Large-Crack Behavior

A plasticity-induced crack-closure model was used to study fatigue crack growth and closure in thin 2024-T3 aluminum alloy under constant-R and constant-Kmax threshold testing procedures. Two methods of calculating crack-opening stresses were compared. One method was based on contact-K analyses and the other on contact crack-openingdisplacement (COD) analyses. These methods gave nearly identica...