Crack Tip Shielding from a Plastic ‘Inclusion’

Autor: Y. Lu, Eann A. Patterson, Kong Fah Tee, Colin Christopher, M. Neil James
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Key Engineering Materials. 465:1-8
ISSN: 1662-9795
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.465.1
Popis: This paper presents a very brief overview of the philosophy underlying a plastic inclusion approach to defining the boundary stresses imposed on the applied elastic stress or displacement field by the plastic deformation attendant on crack growth in a ductile material. It leads to two new fracture mechanics parameters, KR and KS. KR defines a retardation component arising from wake contact and the Poisson’s contraction associated with the plastic zone, whilst KS describes a compatibility-induced component arising from shear at the elastic-plastic interface. These additional components imply that KF is not directly comparable with KI, as it describes the net driving force on the crack from the applied load.
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