Abstract: The presence of even a stable crack in a ductile cantilever can have a dramatic effect on the structural response of the beam. Not only can the magnitude of the permanent plastic deformation ...

Abstract: Simple analytical models and experiments are employed to demonstrate the structural response of a cantilever beam with a stable crack subjected to impact loading. The mode of plastic deformation is shown to depend very ...

Abstract: Two independent exact solutions to the coupled, nonlinear equations of general thermoelasticity are presented in the context of definite body shapes. The stress and temperature fields throughout ...

Abstract: An elastodynamic weight function for a cracked beam is shown to be determined by the elastodynamic stress intensity factor corresponding to a single crack-face loading of the beam. This weight ...