Papers by Author: Kazuhiro Oda

Abstract: This paper presents the simple method to determine the complex stress intensity factor of interface crack in bi-material plate under bending. In the present method, the stress values at the crack tip calculated by FEM are used and the stress intensity factors of interface crack are evaluated from the ratio of stress values between a given and a reference problems. A single interface crack in an infinite bi-material plate subjected to tension and shear is selected as the reference problem in this study. The accuracy of the present analysis is discussed through the results obtained by body force method. As the result, it is confirmed that the present method is useful for analyzing the interface crack under bending.

Abstract: Crack problems are reducible to singular integral equations with strongly singular kernels by means of the body force method. In the ordinary method, the integral equations are reduced to a system of linear algebraic equations. In this paper, an iterative method for the numerical solution of the hypersingular integral equations of the body force method is proposed. This method is based on the Gauss- Chebyshev numerical integration rule and is very simple to program. The solution is achieved without solving the system of linear algebraic equations. The proposed method is applied to some plane elasticity crack problems and is seen to give convergent results.

Abstract: This paper presents the simple method to determine the complex stress intensity factor of interface crack problem by the finite element method. The proportional method is extended to the interface crack problem. In the present method, the stress values at the crack tip calculated by FEM are used and the stress intensity factors of interface crack are evaluated from the ratio of stress values between a given and a reference problems. A single interface crack in an infinite bi-material plate subjected to tension and shear is selected as the reference problem in this study. The accuracy of the present analysis is discussed through the results obtained by other methods. As the result, it is confirmed that the present method is useful for analyzing the interface crack problem.