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Traditional Methods in Computational Fracture Mechanics: By: Adugna Fikadu & Edosa Kefiyalew

The document discusses traditional computational fracture mechanics methods including stress and displacement matching, elemental crack advance, contour integration, and virtual crack extension. It provides details on how each method works and their advantages and disadvantages.

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Traditional Methods in Computational Fracture Mechanics: By: Adugna Fikadu & Edosa Kefiyalew

The document discusses traditional computational fracture mechanics methods including stress and displacement matching, elemental crack advance, contour integration, and virtual crack extension. It provides details on how each method works and their advantages and disadvantages.

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Traditional Methods in

Computational Fracture
Mechanics
By:
Adugna Fikadu
&
Edosa Kefiyalew
Out lines

o Stress and displacement matching


o Elemental crack advance
o Contour integration
o Virtual crack extension
o Stiffness derivative formulation
o Continuum approach
Introduction
o These methods are most likely traditional
o Most of them have been replaced by more recent techniques which are more
accurate and efficient.
o Those techniques can be implemented with either finite element or boundary
element methods.
o For instance, stiffness derivative approach based on finite element stiffness
matrix.
o Thus, is not compatible with boundary element analysis
Stress and Displacement Matching…
Stress or point matching
o It deals with inferring the stress intensity factor from the stress or displacement
fields in the body.
o For a cracked body subjected to pure Mode I loading, on the crack plane (θ = 0),
KI is related to the stress normal to the crack plane as follows:

o The stress-intensity factor can be inferred against distance from the crack tip,
and extrapolating to r = 0
o The stress matching method requires a high degree of mesh refinement to obtain
accurate KI estimates.
Stress and Displacement Matching…
Displacement Matching Method
o Also called energy method.
o Energy methods compute the energy release rate in the body and relate G to stress
intensity.
o KI can be estimated from a similar extrapolation of crack-opening displacement
𝒖𝒚

For plain strain For plain stress


Stress and Displacement Matching…
o Displacement Matching Method give more accurate estimates of KI than Stress
Matching Method.
o Because stresses are singular as r → 0 but displacements are proportional to near
the crack tip.

o Fig: Local coordinate system for stresses and displacements at the crack tip in a
finite element or boundary element model.
Elemental Crack Advance
o The energy release rate can be inferred from the rate of change in global
potential energy with crack growth.

o If two separate numerical analyses of a given geometry are performed, one with
crack length a and the other with crack length a + Δa

o The energy release rate is given by assuming a 2D body with unit thickness.
Elemental Crack Advance…
o This technique is also more efficient than the point matching methods, since
global energy estimates do not require refined meshes.

o But, multiple solutions are required in this case, while other methods infer the
desired crack tip parameter from a single analysis.

o This may not be a serious shortcoming if the intention is to compute G (or K) as a


function of crack size.
Contour Integration
o The J integral can be evaluated numerically along a contour surrounding the
crack tip. The advantages of this method are:

o it can be applied both to linear and nonlinear problems,

o path independence (in elastic materials) enables the user to evaluate J at a


remote contour,

o numerical accuracy is greater.

o For problems that include path-dependent plastic deformation or thermal


strains, it is still possible to compute J at a remote contour.

o Provides an appropriate correction term (i.e., an area integral) is applied.


Contour Integration…
o For 3D problems, however, the contour integral becomes a surface integral,
which is extremely difficult to evaluate numerically.

o More recent numerical formulations for evaluating J apply an area integration


for 2D problems and a volume integration for 3D problems.

o Area and volume integrals provide much better accuracy than contour and
surface integrals, and are much easier to implement numerically.

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