Affiliation:
1. Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
Abstract
The paper deals with a cohesive crack model in which the cohesive (crack-bridging) stress is a specified decreasing function of the crack-opening displacement. Under the assumption that no part of the crack undergoes unloading, the complementary energy and potential energy of an elastic structure which has a cohesive crack and is loaded by a flexible elastic frame is formulated using continuous influence functions representing compliances or stiffnesses relating various points along the crack. By variational analysis, in which the derivatives of the compliance or stiffness functions with respect to the crack length are related to the crack-tip stress intensity factors due to various unit loads, it is shown that the minimizing conditions reduce to the usual compatibility or equilibrium equations for the cohesive cracks. The variational equations obtained can be used as a basis for approximate solutions. Furthermore, the conditions of stability loss of a structure with a growing cohesive crack are obtained from the condition of vanishing of the second variation of the complementary energy or the potential energy. They have the form of a homogeneous Fredholm integral equation for the derivatives of the cohesive stresses or crack opening displacements with respect to the crack length. Loadings with displacement control, load control, or through a flexible loading frame are considered. Extension to the analysis of size effect on the maximum load or maximum displacement are left to a subsequent companion paper.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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