Exterior Collocation for Three Dimensional Surface Flaws.

Abstract

In the paper the problem of a three dimensional surface flaw is solved by the method of exterior collocation. Representing the shape of such a crack by a sector of a circle, the objective is to construct a set of harmonic functions such that the most stringent boundary conditions are satisfied exactly. These conditions are: the normal displacement is zero outside the crack surface and the normal stress is zero or prescribed inside the crack surface. There are additional boundary conditions due to the symmetry of the problem. Using integral forms of harmonic functions, the above conditions are satisfied and the rest of the boundary conditions exterior to the plane of the crack are then satisfied by collocation in the least square sense.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA016922

Entities

People

  • B. Noble
  • M. A. Hussian
  • R. F. Haggerty
  • S. L. Pu

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Displacement
  • Integrals
  • Mathematics
  • Symmetry
  • Three Dimensional

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