Three-dimensional singular stress field at the front of a crack weakening a unidirectional fiber reinforced composite plate
β Scribed by Reaz A. Chaudhuri
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 852 KB
- Volume
- 93
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0263-8223
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β¦ Synopsis
An eigenfunction expansion technique, based in part on separation of the thickness-variable and partly on the Eshelby-Stroh type affine transformation, is employed to derive hitherto unavailable threedimensional asymptotic stress field in the vicinity of the front of a semi-infinite through-thickness crack weakening an infinite transversely isotropic unidirectional fiber reinforced composite plate, of finite thickness and subjected to far-field mode I/II loadings. Crack-face boundary conditions and those that are prescribed on the top and bottom (free, fixed or lubricated) surfaces of the lamina are exactly satisfied. The present investigation considers mainly two through-crack systems -(i) (0 1 0)[0 0 1] with the [1 0 0] propagation direction, and (ii) Γ° 1 0 0ΓΒ½0 0 1 with the [0 1 0] propagation direction. Explicit expressions for the singular stresses in the vicinity of the front of a through-thickness crack weakening a transversely isotropic unidirectional fiber reinforced composite plate, subjected to far-field mode I/II loadings, are presented. Hitherto unavailable numerical results, pertaining to the through-thickness variations of stress intensity factors for saw-tooth load and its skew-symmetric counterpart that also satisfy the boundary conditions on the top and bottom surfaces of the cracked unidirectional fiber reinforced composite (transversely isotropic) plates under investigation, bridge a longstanding gap in the fracture mechanics literature.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
An eigenfuntion expansion method is employed for obtaining three-dimensional asymptotic displacement and stress fields in the vicinity of the front of a crack/anticrack type discontinuity weakening/reinforcing an infinite pie-shaped trimaterial plate, of finite thickness, formed as a result of bimat
The author regrets that errors occurred in the final printed version of the above article. The author would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused to the publisher of this article and readers of the journal. The corrected text and amended Eqs. (19b), ( 22a), ( 22b), (32a), (32