A direct determination of weight functions for arbitrary three-dimensional cracks – a combined analytical and numerical approach
A direct determination of weight functions for arbitrary three-dimensional cracks – a combined analytical and numerical approach
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DOI:
10.1023/b:frac.0000045716.79450.9f
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发表时间:
2004-09
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2.5
通讯作者:
Y. Sumi
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Y. Sumi
A combined analytical and numerical method is proposed for the determination of the weight functions of stress intensity factors of cracks in an arbitrary three-dimensional elastic body. Having defined the weight functions for a given geometry of a structure, the stress intensity factors for arbitrary loading conditions can be obtained by a simple inner product of the weight function and a traction vector. Traditionally weight functions are defined in the two ways; the one is defined by the hyper-singular term of the eigen-function expansion of the displacement field of a cracked body, and the other is defined by the variation of displacement field with respect to a virtual extension of a crack. In the present paper, the weight functions for stress intensity factors are defined by applying the Maxwell-Betti's reciprocal theorem to an original problem and the auxiliary problems subjected to three kinds of force-couples acting on the crack surfaces near the limiting periphery of an arbitrary three-dimensional crack. In the present formulation, weight functions can be calculated by using a general-purpose finite element code combined with analytical expressions near the condensation point, where hyper-singularities exist. The validity of the method is confirmed by two- and three-dimensional illustrative examples.