On the plastic zone size and the crack tip opening displacement of an interface crack between two dissimilar materials

• Main Authors: Tan, S. K., Xiao, Zhong Min., Yi, Dake.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85430; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11532
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the paper, the elastic-plastic fracture behavior of an interface crack between two dissimilar materials is investigated. The mixed-mode Dugdale model is applied to examine the plastic zone size and the crack tip opening displacement. In numerical examples, the plastic zone size and the crack tip...