Journal
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
Volume 51, Issue 8, Pages 1347-1369Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5096(03)00065-6
Keywords
fracture toughness; twinning; crack mechanics; ferroelectric material; finite elements
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The toughness enhancement due to domain switching near a steadily growing crack in a ferro-elastic material is analyzed. The constitutive response of the material is taken to be characteristic of a polycrystalline sample assembled from randomly oriented tetragonal single crystal grains. The constitutive law accounts for the strain saturation, asymmetry in tension versus compression, Bauschinger effects, reverse switching, and strain reorientation that can occur in these materials due to the non-proportional loading that arises near a propagating crack. Crack growth is assumed to proceed at a critical level of the crack tip energy release rate. Detailed finite element calculations are carried out to determine the stress and strain fields near the growing tip, and the ratio of the far field applied energy release rate to the crack tip energy release rate. The results of the finite element calculations are then compared to analytical models that assume the linear isotropic K-field solution holds for either the near tip stress or strain field. Ultimately, the model is able to account for the experimentally observed toughness enhancement in ferroelastic ceramics. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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