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    Effect of the intermediate principal stress on 3-D crack growth

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    Wang, H.
    Dyskin, A.
    Pasternak, E.
    Dight, P.
    Sarmadivaleh, Mohammad
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Wang, H. and Dyskin, A. and Pasternak, E. and Dight, P. and Sarmadivaleh, M. 2018. Effect of the intermediate principal stress on 3-D crack growth. Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 204: pp. 404-420.
    Source Title
    Engineering Fracture Mechanics
    DOI
    10.1016/j.engfracmech.2018.10.024
    ISSN
    0013-7944
    School
    WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering (WASM-MECE)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73361
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    Abstract

    © 2018 Elsevier Ltd An experimental and numerical investigation of 3-D crack growth in biaxial compression is presented. We tested a series of transparent casting resin samples, each with a single initial penny-shape crack at the sample centre. We applied biaxial compression with different ratios (sx/sy) between the lateral (the intermediate principal stress) and the axial (the major principal stress) loads. The initial penny-shape cracks were inclined at 30° to the major principal stress but parallel to the intermediate principal stress. The experimental results revealed the qualitative influence of the intermediate principal stress on shape of 3-D crack growth: in uniaxial compression, the initial penny-shape crack produces wings wrapping around it. The wrapping hampers the ability of the wings to grow resulting in the appearance of the maximum wing length of the order of the size of the initial crack. In biaxial compression with high intermediate principal stress the wings straighten and grow to an extent sufficient to split the sample. The threshold for the intermediate principal stress separating these two regimes of wing growth is surprisingly low: 5.7% of the major principal stress. The XFEM (extended finite element method) modelling showed that this threshold corresponds to the transition in the pattern of direction of the secondary principal tensile stress near the initial crack from directions roughly perpendicular to the intermediate principal compressive stress direction to the radial directions with respect to the initial crack; the latter pattern causes wing wrapping.

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