Abstract: A simple extension of Hill’s formulation for anisotropic plasticity which accounts for the distortion of the yield surface, Mij , the strength differential between tension and compression, αi ...

Abstract: Very high stresses develop near the intersection of a planar interfacial crack with the free surface of joined materials with large mismatch of elastic moduli. The socalled corner singularity ...

Abstract: Within the context of the small-strain approach, combined mode II and III small-scale yielding solutions of a stationary crack are obtained by finite element analysis. To investigate the behavior ...

Abstract: We formulate a finite-element reduced integration penalty method applicable to plane-strain problems with incompressible material behavior. This numerical method is employed to generate crack solutions ...

Abstract: Consistency checks, including short and deep crack limiting relations, are applied to the solutions obtained in Part 1. An error measure is introduced to quantify the consistency check. The ...

Abstract: Fully plastic plane stress solutions are given for a center-cracked strip in tension and an edge-cracked strip in pure bending. In the fully plastic formulation the material is characterized ...

Abstract: An oil storage tank that suffered damage during the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake is studied using a laboratory model. The tank is unanchored and includes a floating roof. The tank is ...

Abstract: Recent experiments by Wang (1990) on copper bicrystals with a [110] symmetric tilt of 38.9 degrees have shown that the mode of fracture of these bicrystals, i.e., whether fracture is of a ...

Abstract: Complete, accurate numerical results are given for the solution to the problem of a semi-infinite crack aligned perpendicularly to the free-edge of a semi-infinite half space in which the ...