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In the present paper the asymptotic stress and deformation fields of dynamic crack extension in materials with linear plastic hardening under combined mode I (plane strain and plane stress) and anti-plane shear loading conditions (mode III) are investigated. The governing equations of the asymptotic crack-tip fields are formulated from two groups of angular functions, one for the in-plane mode and the other for the anti-plane shear mode. It was assumed that all stresses and deformations are of separable functional forms ofr and ϑ, which represent the polar coordinates centered at the actual crack tip. Perturbation solutions of the governing equations were obtained. The singularity behavior and the angular functions of the crack-tip in-plane and the anti-plane stresses obtained from the perturbation analysis show that, regardless of the mixity of the crack-tip field and the strain-hardening, the in-plane stresses under the combined mode I and mode III conditions have stronger singularity in the whole mixed mode steady-state crack growth than that of the anti-plane shear stresses. The anti-plane shear stresses perturbed from the plane strain mode I solutions lose their singularity for small strain hardening, whereas the angular stress functions perturbed from the plane stress mode I have a nearly analogous uniform distribution feature compared to pure mode III cases. An obvious deviation from the unperturbed solution is generally to be observed under combined plane strain mode I and anti-plane mode III conditions, especially for a large Mach number in a material with small strain-hardening; but not under plane stress and mode III conditions. The crack propagation velocity decreases the singularities of both pure mode and perturbed crack-tip fields.
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Yuan, H. A perturbation analysis of combined mode I and III dynamic crack propagation. Acta Mechanica 104, 27–63 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01170276
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