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The near crack line analysis method has been used to investigate the exact elastic-plastic solutions of a mode II crack under plane strain condition in an elastic-perfectly plastic solid. The significance of this paper is that the assumptions of the conventional small scale yielding theory have been completely abandoned. The inappropriateness of matching conditions formerly taken at the elastic-plastic boundary ths been corrected as well. By eatching the general solution of the plastic stress (but not the special solution that was adopted) with the exact elastic stresses (but not the crack tip K-dominant field) at the elastic-plastic boundary near the crack line, the plastic stresses, the length of the plastic zone and the unit normal vector of the elastic-plastic boundary, which are sufficiently precise near the crack line region, have been given. The solutions are suitable not only under the condition that the plastic region is sufficiently small but also under the condition that the plastic region is large.
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Zhi-jian, Y., Shi-Jie, W. & Heng-Li, W. Precise elastic-plastic analysis of crack line field for mode II plane strain crack. Int J Fract 80, 353–363 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00018512
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