Uniformly moving screw dislocation interacting with interface cracks in anisotropic bimaterials

Screw dislocation interacting with interface and interfacial cracks in piezoelectric bimaterials

Interface and interfacial cracks interacting with screw dislocations in piezoelectric bimaterials subjected to antiplane mechanical and in-plane electrical loadings are studied within the framework of linear piezoelectricity theory. Straight dislocations with the Burgers vector normal to the isotropic basal plane near the interface or interfacial crack are considered. The dislocations are chara...

Bridged interface cracks in anisotropic bimaterials

The bonding strength between dissimilar materials in composites is often relatively weak. Interface debonding and cracking are of common occurrence. As an e€ ective method to minimize such failures, ® bre stitching is used to enhance the bonding strength when joining layers in polymer composites. With the presence of the reinforcing ® bre, the overall elastic response for each component of the ...

On Stationary and Moving Interface Cracks with Frictionless Contact in Anisotropic Bimaterials

Screw dislocation interacting with imperfect interface

The study of dislocations interacting with interfaces is of great interest to understand the strengthening and hardening mechanisms in materials. Most of the existing results in this field dealt with perfect interfaces where the displacements are continuous across interfaces. In reality, however, due to damage of interfaces or other reasons, the displacements across interfaces could have a jump...

Moving screw dislocations in piezoelectric bimaterials

An explicit solution for a moving screw dislocation in a piezoelectric bimaterial is given by means of complex variables. The electroelastic fields and forces acting on the moving dislocation are obtained in closed form. As special cases, solutions for a moving screw dislocation in a piezoelectric half-plane with a free or rigid surface are obtained explicitly.