Abstract
A semi-infinite body with a rigid stiffener on a part of the surface under uniform anti-plane shear stress is considered. This is a mixed boundary value problem, and a closed and exact solution is obtained. Stress concentration occurs at the ends of the stiffener; therefore a crack or a debonding may occur at the end of the stiffener. This paper investigates the competition between a crack or a debonding occurrence. It also investigates how far the debonding will extend. The maximum strain energy release rate is used as criterion for detecting a crack and a debonding initiation. Also the strain energy release rate just after crack initiation is investigated and the crack initiation angle is 140.8°. As the applied load, the following three kind of loading conditions are considered; constant loading, increasing loading and small cyclic loading.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 303-313 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | International Journal of Fracture |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Anti-plane shear
- Branch
- Competition
- Cyclic loading
- Debonding
- Increasing loading
- Kinkedcrack
- Longitudinal shear
- Mixed boundary value
- ModeIII
- Stiffener
- Strain energy release rate
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mechanics
- Modeling and Simulation
- Mechanics of Materials