Abstract: An efficient numerical (finite-element) method is presented for the dynamic analysis of rapidly propagating cracks in finite bodies, of arbitrary shape, wherein linear-elastic material behavior and ...

Abstract: Using the moving-singularity finite-element method described in Part 1 of this paper, several problems of dynamic crack propagation in finite bodies have been analyzed. Discussions of the effects ...

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: The possibility of deriving a complementary energy principle, for the incremental analysis of finite deformations of nonlinear-elastic solids, in terms of incremental Piola-Lagrange (unsymmetric) ...

Abstract: Analytical expressions are derived for the derivatives of the crack-surface displacement field, with respect to the lengths of the major and minor axes, respectively, of an elliptical crack ...

Abstract: The general analytical solution to the problem of a flat elliptical crack embedded in an infinite, transversely isotropic solid, oriented perpendicular to the axis of elastic symmetry, is derived ...

Abstract: In this paper, a methodology for finite-element elastoplastic analyses of structures subjected to cyclic loading, based on a new form of endochronic (internal time) plasticity theory, is presented. ...

Abstract: In a companion paper [1], the authors presented a total Lagrangean rate formulation for a hybrid stress finite-element method, based on a rate complementary energy principle which involves both ...

Abstract: An alternating method, in conjunction with the finite element method and a newly developed analytical solution for an elliptical crack in an infinite solid, is used to determine stress intensity ...