Three-dimensional stability analysis of planar straight cracks propagating quasistatically under type I loading

✍ Scribed by R. C. Ball; H. Larralde

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 677 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-2673
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00037815

✦ Synopsis

We calculate to first order the static stress distribution around cracks which are slightly perturbed from semi infinite straight planar geometry and are subject to type I loading. We find that both in-plane and out-of-plane perturbations give rise to local stress distributions which tend to suppress the deviations in the posterior (quasistatic) propagation of the crack.