Abstract: A work-hardening elastic-plastic stress analysis is presented for a sharp notch or, as a limiting case, a crack perturbing a remotely applied uniform stress field. Mathematical complexities are ...

Abstract: The paper is concerned with the structure of multiaxial stress-strain relations in time-dependent metal plasticity, as for transient creep and rate sensitive yielding. First, a general kinematical ...

Abstract: A line integral is exhibited which has the same value for all paths surrounding the tip of a notch in the two-dimensional strain field of an elastic or deformation-type elastic-plastic material. ...

Abstract: The problem explained in the title is formulated generally and given an explicit solution for tensile loadings opening a half-plane crack in an infinite body. For the half-plane crack, changes ...

Abstract: Elastic fracture mechanics concepts are reexamined for a crack on the interface between dissimilar solids. A derivation by function theory is given of the form of stress and displacement fields ...

Abstract: Fracture mechanics is an active research field that is currently advancing on many fronts. This appraisal of research trends and opportunities notes the promising developments of nonlinear fracture ...