Visualizing the crack driving force through fluid analogy

It is shown that the crack driving force for a fundamental antiplane crack problem is analogous to the limiting case of the force acting on an ideal fluid on free streamlines that form at the ends of flow around two parallel plates.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Unger David J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jmbm-2019-0011