| Influences of equal biaxial tensile loads on the stress fields near the mixed mode crack
Dong-Chul Shin
The Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, vol. 23, no. 8, pp.2320-2329, 2009
Abstract : A hybrid method for photoelasticity is introduced and applied to the plane problems of isotropic polycarbonate plates
with a central crack under uniaxial and equal biaxial tensile loads. Also, the influences of equal biaxial tensile loads on
the isochromatic fringes, stress fields and stress intensity factors near the mixed mode crack-tip have been investigated.
The results show that, when an equal lateral tensile load is added to the specimen under uniaxial tensile load, the
asymmetric isochromatic fringes about the line of crack gradually become symmetric, and the slope of the isochromatic
fringe loop near the crack-tip is inclined towards the crack surface according to the increasing of the inclined angle of
crack. Furthermore, the shapes of distribution of all stress components are changed from asymmetric to symmetric. In
the equal biaxial tensile load condition against the uniaxial tensile load condition, the values of stress intensity factors
are changed little, and only the region of compressive stress of σ /σ 0 x is changed when β ＝0o, but the values of
0 / I K K are increased and those of 0 / II K K become almost zero, namely, we have the mode I condition when
β ＝15o~45o.
Keyword : Stress fields; Stress intensity factors; Mixed mode crack; Equal biaxial tensile load; Hybrid method for photoelasticity |
