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An analysis on crack creep propagation problem of power-law nonlinear viscoelastic materials is presented. The creep incompressility assumption is used. To simulate fracture behavior of craze region, it is assumed that in the fracture process zone near the crack tip, the cohesive stress σ f acts upon the crack surfaces and resists crack opening. Through a perturbation method, i. e., by superposing the Mode-I applied force onto a referential uniform stress state, which has a trivial solution and gives no effect on the solution of the original problem, the nonlinear viscoelastic problem is reduced to linear problem. For weak nonlinear materials, for which the power-law index n≅1, the expressions of stress and crack surface displacement are derived. Then, the fracture process zone local energy criterion is proposed and based on which the formulas of cracking incubation time t * and crack slow propagation velocity % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaqcLbyadaWfGa% GcbaqcLbyacqaHXoqyaSqabeaajugGbiaac6caaaaaaa!3B5E!\[\mathop \alpha \limits^. \] are derived.
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Shuangyin, Z., Dianyuan, X. Crack propagation in the power-law nonlinear viscoelastic material. Appl Math Mech 18, 1065–1071 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00132800
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