CYCLICALLY SYMMETRIC ARC-SHAPED INTERFACIAL CRACK IN AN ORTHOTROPIC COMPOSITE CYLINDER
Author(s):SHI Peng-peng, LI Xing, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ningxia University Pages:70-76+107 Year:2014
Issue:8 Journal:Engineering Mechanics Keyword:functionally graded materials; orthotropic materials; arc-shaped interface; cyclically symmetric cracks; Singular integral equations; Abstract:The hollow composite cylinder consisting of an inner orthotropic functionally graded elastic substrate and an outer orthotropic functionally graded elastic layer with cyclically symmetric cracks is considered under an anti-plane shear load.The method of variable separation is employed to reduce this mixed boundary value problem to a Cauchy singular integral equation,which is solved numerically by the Lobatto-Chebyshev quadrature technique,then the numerical results for the stress intensity factor are obtained.The effects of the graded parameters,geometrical and material constants on the stress intensity factors are discussed.