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JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
卷 59, 期 9, 页码 1872-1887出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2011.05.011
关键词
Crack front; Mode I plus III; Instability; Elliptic helix; Griffith criterion; Principle of local symmetry
资金
- US DOE [DE-FG02-07ER46400]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-07ER46400] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
This paper focusses on the theoretical prediction of the widely observed crack front instability in mode I+III, that causes both the crack surface and crack front to deviate from planar and straight shapes, respectively. This problem is addressed within the classical framework of fracture mechanics, where the crack front evolution is governed by conditions of constant energy-release-rate (Griffith criterion) and vanishing stress intensity factor of mode II (principle of local symmetry) along the front. The formulation of the linear stability problem for the evolution of small perturbations of the crack front exploits previous results of Movchan et al. (1998) (suitably extended) and Gao and Rice (1986), which are used to derive expressions for the variations of the stress intensity factors along the front resulting from both in-plane and out-of-plane perturbations. We find exact eigenmode solutions to this problem, which correspond to perturbations of the crack front that are shaped as elliptic helices with their axis coinciding with the unperturbed straight front and an amplitude exponentially growing or decaying along the propagation direction. Exponential growth corresponding to unstable propagation occurs when the ratio of the unperturbed mode III to mode I stress intensity factors exceeds some threshold depending on Poisson's ratio. Moreover, the growth rate of helical perturbations is inversely proportional to their wavelength along the front. This growth rate therefore diverges when this wavelength goes to zero, which emphasizes the need for some regularization of crack propagation laws at very short scales. This divergence also reveals an interesting similarity between crack front instability in mode I+III and well-known growth front instabilities of interfaces governed by a Laplacian or diffusion field. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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