Temperature Rise Distribution near a Crack Tip due to Plastic Work under High Loading Rate

Prediction of fatigue crack growth under constant amplitude loading and a single overload based on elasto-plastic crack tip stresses and strains

It is generally accepted that the fatigue crack growth (FCG) depends mainly on the stress intensity factor range (DK) and the maximum stress intensity factor (Kmax). The two parameters are usually combined into one expression called often as the driving force and many various driving forces have been proposed up to date. The driving force can be successful as long as the stress intensity factor...

Effect of T-stress on Edge Dislocation Formation at a Crack Tip under Mode I Loading

We calculate the effect of the nonsingular stress acting parallel to a crack (the “Tstress”) on edge dislocation nucleation at a crack loaded in Mode I. We find that this leads to crack size effect – that is, for small cracks (of order 100 atomic spacings or less), the T stress causes the critical load for dislocation nucleation (expressed in terms of the applied stress intensity factor) to dev...

Failure design of high-rise concrete panels under fire loading

Tensile Crack Tip Fields in Elastic-ideally Plastic Crystals

Crack tip stress and deformation fields are analyzed for tensile-loaded ideally plastic crystals. The specific cases of (0 1 O) cracks growing in the [1 0 1] direction, and (1 0 1) cracks in the [0, 1, O] direction, are considered for both fcc and bcc crystals which flow according to the critical resolved shear stress criterion. Stationary and quasistatically growing crack fields are considered...

Plane Strain Deformations of Locking Materials near a Crack Tip

Plane-strain deformations of an isotropic and homogeneous Hookean body containing a crack are studied and it is required that the dilatation everywhere in the body be. greater than or equal to a constant. Following Prager, the region where the dilatation always equals the constant is identified as the locking region. For the case when the deformations of the body are symmetrical about the plane...