Abstract: Continuing a series of studies on the fracture analysis of elastic bodies, the present paper provides a complex variable method for evaluating the strength of stress singularities at crack tips ...

Abstract: Fracture mechanics has in recent years become an independent discipline that deals with determining the conditions under which machine or structural elements attain uncontrollable failure by crack ...

Abstract: A theoretical study is carried out to examine the influence of plate thickness on the stress state ahead of a through crack in a bent plate of infinite extent. The approach used rests on ...

Abstract: A method is developed for finding the stress distribution in a cracked body under longitudinal shear and applied to solve a number of problems. Stress solutions are obtained in closed form ...

Abstract: The crack extension in a large plate subjected to general plane loading is examined theoretically and experimentally. It is found that under skew-symmetric plane loading of brittle materials the ...

Abstract: A generalization of the Fourier heat-conduction law appropriate for heat flow in a deformed incompressible initially isotropic material is considered and applied to the determination of the ...

Abstract: The dynamic response of a layered composite under normal and shear impact is analyzed by assuming that the composite contains an initial flaw in the matrix material. Because of the complexities ...