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Elastic wave interaction with a cracked quarter-plane

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Si studia l’interazione elastodinamica tra onde di volume e di superficie ed una fessura su un bordo in un quarto di piano. Si è fatto uso della fotoelasticità dinamica per ottenere un’informazione completa sull’analisi dei dati. Si sono effettuate misure della distribuzione di sforzo lungo i contorni liberi del quarto di piano ed i contorni della fenditura. Si sono ottenute le distribuzioni d’intensità di sforzo sia nell’angolo che nell’estremità difettosa e le distribuzioni superficiali di sforzo per le onde di Rayleigh diffratte e riflesse nella regione dell’angolo crepato.

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The elastodynamic interaction between explosively generated body and surface wave and an edge crack in a quarter-plane is investigated. Dynamic photoelasticity was employed to obtain full-field information for data analysis. Measurements of the stress distribution along the free boundaries of the quarter-plane and along the crack walls have been made. Stress intensity distributions at both, the corner and the flaw tip and surface stress distributions for the diffracted and reflected Rayleigh-waves were obtained in the region near the cracked corner.

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Abbreviations

P :

longitudinal wave

S :

shear wave

V :

head wave or von Schmidt wave

R :

Rayleigh-wave

X r X :

reflectedX-wave

X f X :

diffractedX-wave

X rc X :

wave reflected at crack face

X d X :

wave diffracted at crack tip

S d P :

S-wave generated by diffraction of incidentP-wave

S r S d P :

S-wave generated by reflection of theS d P-wave

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Rossmanith, HP. Elastic wave interaction with a cracked quarter-plane. Meccanica 20, 127–135 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02337631

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