Residual Strength and Fatigue Lifetime of ... - Solid Mechanics
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1.4 Linear Elastic Fracture <strong>Mechanics</strong> in Material<br />
Interfaces<br />
Linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) addresses the fracture <strong>of</strong> solids in which the size <strong>of</strong> the<br />
zone dominated by non-linear inelastic deformations close to the crack tip is small compared to<br />
the crack length. When a crack propagates in homogeneous solids it mostly occurs in opening<br />
mode I loading. Even if there is an initial mixed-mode loading at the crack tip, the crack will<br />
eventually kink into a path with pure mode I loading. However, in an interface crack between<br />
two dissimilar materials this is not the case <strong>and</strong> the crack tip loading is a mixed-mode loading<br />
even if the global load is pure mode I. This is to due asymmetries <strong>of</strong> moduli <strong>and</strong> Poisson’s ratios<br />
along the interface, where both shear <strong>and</strong> normal stresses exist in the crack front (He <strong>and</strong><br />
Hutchinson, 1989). A strong dependency <strong>of</strong> the fracture toughness <strong>and</strong> mode-mixity has been<br />
observed in different experimental investigations, e.g. Liechti <strong>and</strong> Chai (1992), making the<br />
mode-mixity phase angle an important parameter for the characterisation <strong>of</strong> interface cracks.<br />
Figure 1.5: Interface crack geometry.<br />
A general interface crack problem assumes that a crack is located between two orthotropic elastic<br />
materials denoted as #1 <strong>and</strong> #2, as shown in Figure 1.5. Two materials are joined along a straight<br />
interface <strong>and</strong> the crack tip is located at x=0. The displacement <strong>and</strong> stress fields close to the crack<br />
tip can be described according to Suo (1989):<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
where y <strong>and</strong> x are the opening <strong>and</strong> sliding relative displacements <strong>of</strong> the crack flanks, <strong>and</strong><br />
are normal <strong>and</strong> shear stresses. K is the complex stress intensity factor defined as<br />
(1.7)<br />
7<br />
(1.5)<br />
(1.6)