Employment of Fracture Mechanics Criteria for Accurate Assessment of the Full Set of Elastic Constants of Orthorhombic/Tetragonal Mono-Crystalline YBCO

Author:

Chaudhuri Reaz A.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 122 S, Central Campus Dr., Room 304, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0560, USA

Abstract

The effect of elastic constants, cij, on the nature (easy or difficult) of a cleavage system in mono-crystalline YBa2Cu3O7−δ is investigated by employing a novel three-dimensional eigenfunction expansion technique, based in part on the separation of the thickness variable and partly on a modified Frobenius-type series expansion technique in conjunction with Eshelby–Stroh formalism. Out of the three available, complete sets of elastic constants, only the experimental measurements using resonant ultrasound spectroscopy merit serious attention, despite reported values of c12 and, to a lesser extent, c66 being excessively high. The present investigation considers six through-thickness crack systems weakening orthorhombic mono-crystalline Yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) plates. More importantly, the present investigation establishes sufficient conditions for crack path stability/instability, which entail a cleavage system being easy or difficult, i.e., whether a crack would propagate in its original plane/direction or deflect to a different one. This criterion of fracture mechanics is then employed for accurate determination of the full set of elastic constants of superconducting mono-crystalline YBCO. Finally, heretofore unavailable results pertaining to the through-thickness variations of stress intensity factors and energy release rates for a crack corresponding to symmetric and skew-symmetric hyperbolic cosine loads, which also satisfy the boundary conditions on the plate surfaces, bridge a longstanding gap.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Medicine

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