Thermoelectromechanical Response of a Penny-Shaped Crack in a Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Strip

Penny{shaped Crack Bridged by Fibres

An axi{symmetric problem for a penny{shaped crack bridged by bres is considered. The study is reduced to the analysis of a hy-persingular integral equation with respect to the relative crack{face separation over a circular domain occupied by crack. The special case of a large crack subjected to Mode{I loading is examined. A matched asymptotic expansions technique is used in order to estimate th...

Experimental Study of Seismic Scattering by a Penny-shaped Crack

A penny-shaped cohesive crack model for material damage

A novel micromechanics based damage model is proposed to address failure mechanism of defected solids with randomly distributed penny-shaped cohesive micro-cracks (Barenblatt–Dugdale type). Energy release contribution to the material damage process is estimated in a representative volume element (RVE) under macro hydrostatic stress state. Macro-constitutive relations of RVE are derived via self...

The Penny-shaped Crack in Shear and Related Contact Problems

Abstract-A solution to the equations of elastic equilibrium is developed in terms of two harmonic functions, such that on a certain plane, normal stresses are identically zero, whilst tangential stresses and displacements are expressible as simple derivatives. The solution is used to solve the problem of the penny-shaped crack subjected to an arbitrary tangential traction and the corresponding ...

The Penny-Shaped Interface Crack With Heat Flow

A solution is given for the thermal stresses due to a penny-shaped crack at the interface between dissimilar materials loaded in tension for the case where the heat flux is into the material with higher distortivity. Regions of separation and perfect thermal contact are developed at the crack faces. A harmonic potential function representation is used to reduce the problem to a three-part bound...