BRITTLE FRACTURE OF PLATES IN TENSION - VIRGIN WAVES AND BOUNDARY REFLECTIONS. Conference Paper

abstract

• Virgin waves emitted during tensile fracture of edge-notched brittle plates have been measured at points on and away from the crack path. The results are in excellent agreement with the analysis of Freund. Boundary reflections were also determined. Both the rear and the front edge reflections are small but not negligibly small; the former are tensile, the latter comprehensive. Unloading waves are propagated behind the crack tip, and are small compared to the loading waves, which are propagated ahead of the tip. The front edge reflections were also examined near the edge; these are compressive and large. Finally, for an embedded crack, the field scattered by the stationary crack tip was found to be negligibly small.

authors

• Kinra, Vikram

published proceedings

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Paper)

author list (cited authors)

• Kinra, V. K., & Vu, B. Q.

complete list of authors

• Kinra, VK||Vu, BQ

publication date

• January 1979

published in

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Paper)  Journal

issue

• 79 -WA/APM-36