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Boundary Element Analysis Of Interface Cracks In Dissimilar Orthotropic Materials Using A Path Independent Contour Integral

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

19

Pages

8

Published

1997

Size

630 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/BE970351

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

F.A. de Paula and M.H. Aliabadi

Abstract

This paper presents a boundary element method for analysis of interface cracks in dissimilar materials. A path independent contour integral is used to obtain the complex stress intensity factors. For mixed-mode problems the crack opening displacements are used to decouple the stress intensity factors. The proposed technique is applied to interface cracks in both isotropic and orthotropic dissimilar materials. Several examples are presented to demonstrate the accuracy of the method. 1 Introduction The problem of cracks along the interface of orthotropic dissimilar materials has an important role in the structural analy

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