An Integral Technique to Evaluate Opening Mode Stress Intensity Factors for Embedded Planar Cracks of Arbitrary Shape
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
- Vol. 9 (1) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1139/tcsme-1985-0001
Abstract
In this paper, techniques are developed to handle the integrable singularities of the integral proposed by Burns and Oore for the estimation of opening mode stress intensity factors for embedded planar defects of arbitrary shape. The hybrid numerical-analytical integration techniques developed consider separately two crack front zones and one interior zone of the crack surface. Parameters are established for the sizing of the integration elements within each zone. Studies of elliptical defects with aspect ratios between 1 and 10 demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of this procedure for computing opening mode stress intensity factors. A simple method which compensates for the quadrature error associated with computationally inexpensive, coarse grids is outlined.Keywords
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