Dynamic Effects on Fracture.

Abstract

A summary and a bibliography are presented of the investigations on dynamic effects on fracture in elastic and elastic-plastic materials which were carried out at Northwestern University under the sponsorship of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research during the period July 1, 1978 - September 30, 1983. Two main areas are investigated: high rate loads on bodies containing cracks, and fast fracture and crack arrest. Inertial and crack tip plasticity effects are investigated for a stationary crack under rapid loading. Dynamic analysis of fast fracture and crack arrest using a Dugdale model is formulated and numerically solved. Elastodynamic stress intensity factors are investigated for various subsurface crack geometries, including Mode III analytical solutions and approximate mixed Mode I-II solutions. Elastic-viscoelastic fast fracture and crack arrest are studied using Bodner-Partom constitutive modeling. Crack kinking under stress wave loading is analyzed rigorously for Mode III, and mixed Mode I-II is approximated. Originator furnished key words include: Crack propagation, Near tip fields, Elastic plastic behavior, Crack arrest, Crack kinking.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA150327

Entities

People

  • Jan D. Achenbach

Organizations

  • Northwestern University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Civil Engineering
  • Crack Tips
  • Engineering
  • Fast Fractures
  • Fracture (Mechanics)
  • Geometry
  • Integral Equations
  • Materials
  • Mechanics
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Stress Intensity Factors
  • Stress Waves
  • Stresses
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transient Response Analysis
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.