Abstract
The stress intensity factors are evaluated for a moving planar crack for loadings which vary arbitrarily in time and three dimensions of space. We exploit the adjoint elasticity equation obeyed by the corresponding weight functions, and a new and more universal Wiener-Hopf factorization of the Rayleigh function, this being the central difficulty in such calculations. For the mode II weight function we give further asymptotic results crucial to a subsequent calculation of crack stability with respect to out-of-plane perturbations.
- Received 3 August 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.61.298
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