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Fracture Mechanics Handbook

This document provides an overview of fracture mechanics concepts and methods. It covers topics like stress intensity factors, plastic zone sizes, energy methods like the J-integral, crack tip opening displacements, and experimental test standards. The document also summarizes analytical methods using Airy stress functions, conformal mapping, and numerical techniques like the finite element method. It aims to present design data and equations for engineers to understand and apply fracture mechanics in failure analysis and design.

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Fracture Mechanics Handbook

This document provides an overview of fracture mechanics concepts and methods. It covers topics like stress intensity factors, plastic zone sizes, energy methods like the J-integral, crack tip opening displacements, and experimental test standards. The document also summarizes analytical methods using Airy stress functions, conformal mapping, and numerical techniques like the finite element method. It aims to present design data and equations for engineers to understand and apply fracture mechanics in failure analysis and design.

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K. L. E.

SOCIETY’S
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
BELGAUM - 590 008

Design Data Handbook for FRACTURE MECHANICS


III Semester M-Tech (Design Engineering)

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

2009-2010

Approvals

Prof. HG Patil Prof. SR Basavaraddi


(Teaching faculty) (Head of the Dept)
I-In plane crack tip stresses:

Stress intensity factor(K):

Condition for crack growth:

Griffith Criterion: Stress intensity factor:

Crack growth propagation:

II-Airy’s stress function:- Airy’s Stress function(ψ):


Equilibrium equations (plane case):

Stress-strain relations:

Complex functions:

Cauchy-Reimann conditions: C-R equation:

Stresses at crack tip:

Westergaard function:

Stress function for Mode-I crack under


biaxial stress:

and
Stresses at crack tip;

Modified stress function: Stresses:


Displacements:

Or , Mode-III

General Solution:

Weastergaard, Irwin,Koiter (infinte plate):

Fig 3.4 Stresses on the edges of


strip cut from infinite plate with
collinear cracks.
Fedderson, Isida, Irwin finite width SIF for small edge crack:
corrections:

Special Cases:

SIF for internal pressure: For central located wedge force(x=0):

Modified SIF :

General soln for eccentrical point Reduced SIF:


force(Green’s soln):

Elliptical Cracks(from table 3.1):


Plastic Zone Correction Factor:

Max SIF:

Flaw shape parameter:

Max SIF for surface flaw:


Fig 3.13- Kobayashi correction (Mk) for
proximity of front free-surface
3.14 Stress intensity for surface flaws tension & bending
Mode-I Stresses:

Stresses (polar co-ordinates): Principal stress:


Mode-II Crack opening displacement:

III-Crack Tip Plastic Zone:


Irwin plastic zone Correction:

Crack tip opening Displacement:


Area A=B:

Dugdale Approach: SIF for S distributed force:

s=a to a+ρ
The value ρ is:

Shape of Plastic zone:

By Von-Mises criterion

Crack tip Stress field Equations:


Tresca Criterion:

Plastic constraint factor: Plastic zone correction:

COD(x=0):

Thickness Effect:
V-Energy Principle:
Condition for crack growth (plate with unit
thickness)

Elastic Energy(cracked plate):

Energy release rate:


Energy released as work: Criterion for crack growth:

Energies from different mode: Critical stress:

for plane strain


case
R-CURVE:

From graph:

Irwin correction: Alternative R- curves:


COMLIANCE: Relation b/w G & K:

where
Relative Displacement:

Compliance of specimen:

Energy release rate interms of


compliance:

SIF:
Fig 5.20 Load displacement diagram for
cracked body of nonlinear elastic
material
J-INTEGRAL:

J-integral around crack tip contour:


for linear elastic case

For non-linear elastic


Fig 5.22 constant Jic for centre cracked specimens [23]
(courtesy ASTM)
Tearing modulus: For Stable crack Stability:
growth:

fracture instablity occurs


Paris Dimensionless form;
`
VII- Dynamics & Crack Arrest:
Crack tip subjected to displacements u
&v:

Speed of displacement:

Resulting Kinetic enrgy:

Crack growth rate:

Fig 6.5 Tensile stress & shear stress as fun of θ, as affected


by crack speed
Crack Branching The Principle of crack arrest:
IV- Chapter 2. Numerical Method [fem]:
1. Analytical solution: a. Direct Method:
i. Using Airy’s stress function:

ii. Method of Conformal Mapping

b. Indirect method: Compliance

3. Experimental method: iii. Compliance Method:


i. Based on photo elasticity:

ii. Strain Gauge method:

ASTM Test Standard:


Bend Specimen: B = 0.25 W to W; Span (S) = 4W
For 0.45 < (a/w) < 0.55

For 0.2 < (a/w) < 1


Tension Specimen: a = 0.45-0.55W ; B = 0.25W to 0.5W
For 0.45 < (a/w) < 0.55

For 0.2 < (a/w) < 1

II Estimation of stress intensity factor:


Size Requirement:
Bmin = 2.5 (KIC/δy)2
W= 2a, 2B= W
L = 1.2W Compact tension
L = 4W Bend Specimen

Non-Linearity:
and
VI- Chapter

Crack tip opening displacement:

Experimental CTOD:
Experimental CTOD:
Veerman & Muller equation

Parameters Affecting Critical CTOD:


Relation b/w J-integral & CTOD:

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