Abstract: This paper is an extension of work by Drugan et al. (1982) who derive the stress and deformation fields at the tip of a plane strain tensile crack that grows quasi-statically, under general nonsteady conditions...

Abstract: As an analytical first study of the mechanics of ductile-brittle interfacial crack growth, I derive the stress and deformation fields near the tip of a crack that is growing quasi-statically ...

Abstract: The present work provides rigorous substantiation of certain crucial asymptotic expressions which constitute the basis of a number of previous near-tip analyses of quasistatic elastic-plastic crack ...

Abstract: Pure bending experiments on prismatic bars of square cross section composed of reticulated polymer foam exhibit deformation behavior not captured by classical elasticity theory. Perhaps the clearest example of this is the ...

Abstract: We perform an analytical first study of the influence of a uniform porosity distribution, for the entire range of porosity level, on the stress field near a plane strain tensile crack tip ...

Abstract: Why do experiments detect Cosserat-elastic effects for porous, but not for stiff-particle-reinforced, materials? Does homogenization of a heterogeneous Cauchy-elastic material lead to micropolar ...

Abstract: For dynamic deformations of compressible elastic-ideally plastic materials in the practically important cases of plane stress and plane strain, we investigate the possible existence of propagating ...

Abstract: This paper continues the investigation of Drugan and Miao (1992). There we studied analytically the influence of a uniform porosity distribution on the stress field near a plane strain tensile crack tip in ductile...