Abstract: A finite element based method is proposed for calculating stress intensity factors of functionally graded materials (FGMs). We show that the standard domain integral is sufficiently accurate when ...

Abstract: Full-field numerical solutions for a crack which lies along the interface of an elastic-plastic medium and a rigid substrate are presented. The solutions are obtained using a small strain version ...

Abstract: In Part I we found that although the near tip fields of cracks on bimaterial interfaces do not have a separable form of the HRR type, they appear to be nearly separable in an annular zone ...

Abstract: In Parts I and II, the structure of small-scale yielding fields of interface cracks were described in the context of small strain plasticity and J 2 deformation theory. These fields are members ...