TY - JOUR
T1 - The T-stress along a 3-D straight crack
AU - Schapira, Yaron
AU - Omer, Netta
AU - Yosibash, Zohar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/10/15
Y1 - 2018/10/15
N2 - The T-stress in a three dimensional elastic domain containing a straight crack is considered. First the complete asymptotic expansion in the vicinity of the crack front, including the T-stress, is presented explicitly. Having obtained the asymptotic expansion, we compute the dual solution associated with the T-stress, and prove it must contain logarithmic terms. This dual solution is used to extend the quasi dual function method (QDFM) for the extraction of the T-stress from finite element solutions and express it as a function along the crack front. Since the stress field tends to infinity at the crack front whereas the T-stress remains constant, its extraction from finite element solutions, containing numerical errors, is a non-trivial task. We herein develop accurate and efficient methods for extracting the T-stress function along the crack edge by the QDFM. Numerical examples are provided for the computation of the T-stresses from conventional and high order finite element methods.
AB - The T-stress in a three dimensional elastic domain containing a straight crack is considered. First the complete asymptotic expansion in the vicinity of the crack front, including the T-stress, is presented explicitly. Having obtained the asymptotic expansion, we compute the dual solution associated with the T-stress, and prove it must contain logarithmic terms. This dual solution is used to extend the quasi dual function method (QDFM) for the extraction of the T-stress from finite element solutions and express it as a function along the crack front. Since the stress field tends to infinity at the crack front whereas the T-stress remains constant, its extraction from finite element solutions, containing numerical errors, is a non-trivial task. We herein develop accurate and efficient methods for extracting the T-stress function along the crack edge by the QDFM. Numerical examples are provided for the computation of the T-stresses from conventional and high order finite element methods.
KW - FEMs
KW - T-stress
KW - Three-dimensions
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U2 - 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2018.09.013
DO - 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2018.09.013
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AN - SCOPUS:85053866013
SN - 0013-7944
VL - 202
SP - 214
EP - 241
JO - Engineering Fracture Mechanics
JF - Engineering Fracture Mechanics
ER -