Qing-fen Li1, Li Zhu1, Shi-fan Zhu1, F-G Buchholz1
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 273-288, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.273
Abstract The fracture behavior in all fracture mode (AFM)-specimen with a single edged crack under different loading conditions is investigated by the aid of the commercial ANSYS code. The separated strain energy release rates (SERRs) along the crack front are calculated by the modified virtual crack closure integral (MVCCI)-method. It is shown that the computational results of the AFM-specimen are in good agreement with some available findings for pure mode I, mode II, mode III, and mixed-mode I+III loading conditions. Furthermore, the crack growth problems under complex mixed-mode II+III loading condition by using the AFM-specimen, are More >