Author(s)

D.G. PAVLOU

Abstract

A review of Green’s functions for dissimilar or homogeneous elastic space containing penny-shaped or annular interfacial cracks under singular ring-shaped loading sources is presented. The solutions are based on fictitious singular loading sources and superposition of the fundamental solutions of the following two problems: (a) Dissimilar elastic solid without crack under singular source, and (b) Dis-similar elastic solid containing crack under surface tractions. The above Green’s functions have the following advantages: (i) No multi-region BE modeling for the dissimilar material is necessary, and (ii) No discretization of the crack surface is necessary. Numerical examples are presented and discussed

Keywords

axisymmetric loading, crack, dissimilar material, green’s functions