Bimaterial interface crack analysis using an extended consecutive-interpolation quadrilateral element

Analysis of 2-dimensional transient problems for linear elastic and piezoelectric structures using the consecutive-interpolation quadrilateral element (CQ4)

The recently developed consecutive-interpolation procedure (CIP) based 4-node quadrilateral element (CQ4) is used to study free and forced 2-dimensional vibrations of elastic and piezoelectric structures of complex geometries. For some of these problems results have also been computed with the standard quadrilateral element under the constraint that the two approaches have the same number of de...

an extended finite element (xfem) approach for crack analysis in composite media

a new approach is proposed to model a crack in orthotropic composite media using the extended finite element method (xfem). the xfem uses the concept of partition of unity in addition to meshless basic idea of approximating a field variable by its values at a set of surrounding nodes. as a result, higher order approximations can be designed with the same total number of degrees of freedom. in t...

Intersonic Crack Propagation in Bimaterial Systems

This paper describes experimental observations of various phenomena characteristic of dynamic intersonic decohesion of bimaterial interfaces[ Two separate but complementary optical methods are used in con! junction with high!speed photography to explore the nature of the large!scale contact and mach wave formation at the vicinity of running cracks in two di}erent bimaterial systems[ Theoretical...

Stress analysis around crack tips in finite strain problems using the eXtended finite element method

Oscillatory Singularity Behaviors Near Interface Crack Tip for Mode II of Orthotropic Bimaterial

The fracture behaviors near the interface crack tip for mode II of orthotropic bimaterial are discussed. The oscillatory singularity fields are researched. The stress functions are chosen which contain twelve undetermined coefficients and an unknown singularity exponent. Based on the boundary conditions and linear independence, the system of twelve nonhomogeneous linear equations is derived. Ac...