The Interface Crack in a Shear Field
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- Published by ASME International in Journal of Applied Mechanics
- Vol. 45 (2) , 287-290
- https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3424289
Abstract
The interface crack in a tension field was reconsidered in a recent paper, and the unrealistic oscillatory singularities were eliminated by assuming small frictionless contact zones near the crack tips. In the present paper, the interface crack in a shear field is studied. Some unexpected results emerge: one of the contact zones is large, affecting thus the global nature of the solution; the gap closes extremely abruptly at one of its ends, but the normal stresses remain zero at this point; and the shear stress-intensity factors have opposite signs at the crack tips.Keywords
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