Interaction of shear waves with two coplanar Griffith cracks situated in an infinitely long elastic strip

✍ Scribed by K. N. Srivastava; R. M. Palaiya; D. S. Karaulia

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 441 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-2673
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00020153

✦ Synopsis

In an earlier paper [6] we have studied the case of interaction of shear waves with a crack centrally situated in an infinite elastic strip; we, in this paper, extend the study to the case of two coplanar Griffith cracks. An integral transform method is used to find the solution of the equation of motion from the linear theory for a homogeneous, isotropic -elastic material. This method resolves the problem into an integral equation. It has been observed that shear waves with frequencies less than a parameter depending on the width of the wave guide can only propagate. The integral equation is solved numerically for a range of values of wave frequency, width of strip and the inter-crack distance. These solutions are used to calculate the dynamic stress intensity factor. The results are shown graphically.