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In fracture mechanics, the energy release rate, , is the rate at which energy is transformed as a material undergoes fracture. Mathematically, the energy release rate is expressed as the decrease in total potential energy per increase in fracture surface area, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is thus expressed in terms of energy per unit area.
The J-integral represents a way to calculate the strain energy release rate, or work per unit fracture surface area, in a material. [1] The theoretical concept of J-integral was developed in 1967 by G. P. Cherepanov [2] and independently in 1968 by James R. Rice, [3] who showed that an energetic contour path integral (called J) was independent of the path around a crack.
The fracture toughness and the critical strain energy release rate for plane stress are related by = where is the Young's modulus. If an initial crack size is known, then a critical stress can be determined using the strain energy release rate criterion.
where E is the Young's modulus, ν is Poisson's ratio, and K I is the stress intensity factor in mode I. Irwin also showed that the strain energy release rate of a planar crack in a linear elastic body can be expressed in terms of the mode I, mode II (sliding mode), and mode III (tearing mode) stress intensity factors for the most general ...
Using the compliance method, the critical strain energy release rate is given by G I c = 3 P C δ C 2 B a {\displaystyle G_{Ic}={\frac {3P_{C}\delta _{C}}{2Ba}}} (2) where P C {\displaystyle P_{C}} and δ C {\displaystyle \delta _{C}} are the maximum load and displacement respectively by determining when the load deflection curve has become ...
This allows the strain energy release rate, , to be defined by the critical crack opening displacement, = or the critical cohesive zone size, , as follows: [6] G c = 2 ∫ 0 ν c σ y y d ν = 8 σ t h 2 r c o π E = 2 γ s {\displaystyle G_{c}=2\int _{0}^{\nu _{c}}\sigma _{yy}d\nu ={\frac {8\sigma _{th}^{2}r_{co}}{\pi E}}=2\gamma _{s}}
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The usage of R-curves in fracture analysis is a more complex, but more comprehensive failure criteria compared to the common failure criteria that fracture occurs when where is simply a constant value called the critical energy release rate. An R-curve based failure analysis takes into account the notion that a material's resistance to fracture ...