The finite anti-plane shear field near the tip of a crack for a class of incompressible elastic solids
- Creators
- Knowles, James K.
Abstract
The present paper is concerned with an infinite slab containing a crack and deformed at infinity to a state of finite simple shear. The material of the slab is taken to be homogeneous, isotropic, elastic, and incompressible, and is further assumed to belong to a class of materials which admit nontrivial states of anti-plane shear. The analysis is carried out for the fully nonlinear equilibrium theory of finite elasticity. The stress field near the crack-tips is studied in detail; one of the special materials considered is such that the shear stresses near a crack tip remain bounded, despite the presence of unbounded displacement gradients. An analogy between the crack problem in finite anti-plane shear and the problem of transonic flow of a gas past a flat plate is pointed out and discussed.
Additional Information
© 1977 Noordhoff International Publishing. Received July 30, 1976. The results communicated in this paper were obtained in the course of an investigation supported under Contract N00014-75-C-0196 between the California Institute of Technology and the Office of Naval Research. The author acknowledges the many helpful comments of Eli Sternberg during the preparation of the manuscript.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 59037
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF00017296
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20150728-111035202
- N00014-75-C-0196
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
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