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- Title
Dugdale plastic zone of a penny-shaped crack in a piezoelectric material under axisymmetric loading.
- Authors
Hu, Keqiang; Chen, Zengtao
- Abstract
The Dugdale plastic zone ahead of a penny-shaped crack in a piezoelectric material, subjected to electric and axisymmetric mechanical loadings, is evaluated analytically. Hankel transform is employed to reduce the mixed boundary-value problem of the penny-shaped crack to dual integral equations, which are solved exactly under the assumption of electrically permeable crack face conditions. A closed-form solution to the mixed boundary-value problem is obtained to predict the relationship between the length of the plastic zone and the applied loading. The stress distribution in and outside of the yield zone has been derived analytically, and the crack opening displacement has been investigated. The electric displacement has a constant value in the strip yield zone. The current Dugdale crack model leads to non-singular stress and electric fields near the crack front, and it is observed that the material properties affect the crack opening displacement.
- Subjects
MATERIAL plasticity; PENNY-shaped cracks; PIEZOELECTRIC materials; MATHEMATICAL symmetry; LOADING &; unloading; MECHANICAL behavior of materials
- Publication
Acta Mechanica, 2016, Vol 227, Issue 3, p899
- ISSN
0001-5970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00707-015-1501-5