Steady-state propagation of a mode II crack in couple stress elasticity

Mixed Mode Crack Propagation of Zirconia/Nickel Functionally Graded Materials

Zirconia-nickel functionally graded materials were obtained by powder metallurgy technique. The microstructure, residual stress, fracture toughness and Vickers hardness were investigated. Mixed-mode fracture response of YSZ /Ni functionally graded materials was examined utilizing the three point bending test and finite element method (Cosmos/M 2.7). The results show that the stress intensity fac...

Propagation of a Mode-II crack in a viscoelastic medium with different bulk and shear relaxation

A solution for a crack propagating under shear loading in an isotropic viscoelastic medium with different relaxation under volume and shear deformations is presented. The medium is infinite and the semi-infinite crack propagates along the x1-axis at constant speed V , which may take any value up to the speed of dilatational waves. The requisite Riemann-Hilbert problem for the steady-state case ...

Steady-state modeling of a turbocharger in gasoline engines

The gas flow estimation is crucial for the proper operation and monitoring of turbocharged (TC) engines with a torque structured engine control unit (ECU). This paper presents mean value models developed for modeling gas flow over the compressor, the turbine and the wastegate (WG) in a TC gasoline engine not equipped with a hot film air-mass flow meter (HFM). The turbine flow ...

Energy minimizing brittle crack propagation II

Steady State Computations for Wave Propagation Problems*

The behavior of difference approximations of hyperbolic partial differential equations as time t -* oo is studied. The rate of convergence to steady state is analyzed theoretically and expe ¡mentally for the advection equation and the linearized Euler equations. The choice of difference formulas and boundary conditions strongly influences the rate of convergence in practical steady state calcul...