Abstract
Although the anti-plane strain case is of minor practical value in engineering applications, such an idealization facilitates mathematical investigations of strain and displacement fields accompanying extending cracks. This paper presents finite element solutions to anti-plane strain crack propagation problems and contrasts the numerical results with available analytic solutions in an effort to assess the accuracy of the numerical procedures. The nature of dominant strain singularities for stationary and moving cracks, the question of stableversus unstable or catastrophic crack growth and the implications of various proposed fracture criteria are discussed.
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Bien que le case des dilatations antiplanaires soit d'une importance pratique mineure dans les applications de la construction, une telle idéalisation facilite les investigations mathématiques sur les champs de dilatation et de déplacement qui accompagnent des fissures en cours d'extension. Le mémoire présente des solutions par élément fini aux problèmes de la propagation de fissure sous des dilatations antiplanaires et fait apparaître le contraste entre les résultats numériques et les solutions analytiques disponibles, dans une tentative de faire valoir ou de constater la précision des procédures numériques. La nature des singularités déterminantes de dilatation dans le cas de fissures stationnaires et de fissures en mouvement, la question de la croissance catastrophique instable ou stable d'une fissure et les implications que les divers critères proposés de rupture contiennent sont discutées.
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Sorensen, E.P. A finite element investigation of stable crack growth in anti-plane shear. Int J Fract 14, 485–500 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01390470
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