Abstract: In this paper, following a critical assessment of earlier work of Green and Sneddon, Segedin, Kassir, and Sih (who obtained solutions for specific cases of normal loading on the crack face ...

Abstract: Proper formulation of stress-strain relations, particularly in tension-compression situations for isotropic biomodulus materials, is an unresolved problem. Ambartsumyan’s model [8] and Jones’ weighted ...