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Crack Nucleation In A Peridynamic Solid, S. Silling, O. Weckner, E. Askari, Florin Bobaru Jul 2013

Crack Nucleation In A Peridynamic Solid, S. Silling, O. Weckner, E. Askari, Florin Bobaru

Florin Bobaru Ph.D.

A condition for the emergence of a discontinuity in an elastic peridynamic body is proposed, resulting in a material stability condition for crack nucleation. The condition is derived by determining whether a small discontinuity in displacement, superposed on a possibly large deformation, grows over time. Stability is shown to be determined by the sign of the eigenvalues of a tensor field that depends only on the linearized material properties. This condition for nucleation of a discontinuity in displacement can be interpreted in terms of the dynamic stability of plane waves with very short wavelength. A numerical example illustrates that cracks …


Tools For Engine Diagnostics Under The Nasa Aviation Safety Program, George Baaklini, Andrew Gyekenyesi, K. Smith, Jerzy Sawicki, L. Brasche Jan 2013

Tools For Engine Diagnostics Under The Nasa Aviation Safety Program, George Baaklini, Andrew Gyekenyesi, K. Smith, Jerzy Sawicki, L. Brasche

Jerzy T. Sawicki

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