Final Scientific Report on AFOSR-77-3290.

Abstract

This report summarizes progress on several theoretical questions concerning contact and fracture phenomena for elastic and viscoelastic material. Specifically, the following topics are discussed: (1) quasi-static sliding contact problems for power-law linearly viscoelastic material; (2) the quasi-static propagation of a crack by a rigid wedge through an infinite power-law linearly viscoelastic body; (3) solution techniques of systems for generalized Abel integral equations with application to simultaneous sets of dual integral equations and interfacial cracks in elastic material; (4) the application of conservation integral techniques to the calculation of energy release rates for elastic interfacial edge cracks; (5) static thermo-elastic interfacial edge cracks; and (6) the dynamic, steady-state fracture of general linearly viscoelastic material. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA118579

Entities

People

  • Jay R. Walton

Organizations

  • Texas A&M University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Composite Materials
  • Crack Tips
  • Cracks
  • Elastic Materials
  • Equations
  • Friction
  • Integral Equations
  • Integrals
  • Materials
  • Mathematics
  • Sliding Contacts
  • Sliding Friction
  • Steady State
  • Stress Intensity Factors
  • Traction
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.