Dynamic propagation of a macrocrack interacting with parallel small cracks

Vazic, Bozo and Wang, Hanlin and Diyaroglu, Cagan and Oterkus, Selda and Oterkus, Erkan (2017) Dynamic propagation of a macrocrack interacting with parallel small cracks. AIMS Materials Science, 4 (1). pp. 118-136. ISSN 2372-0484 (https://doi.org/10.3934/matersci.2017.1.118)

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Abstract

In this study, the effect of small cracks on the dynamic propagation of a macrocrack is investigated by using a new continuum mechanics formulation, peridynamics. Various combinations of small cracks with different number, location and density are considered. Depending on the location, density and number of small cracks, the propagation speed of macrocrack differs. Some combinations of small cracks slows down the propagation of a macrocrack by 34%. Presented results show that this analysis can be useful for the design of new microstructurally toughened materials.

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Vazic, Bozo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0977-0434, Wang, Hanlin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0890-0727, Diyaroglu, Cagan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9907-4661, Oterkus, Selda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0474-0279 and Oterkus, Erkan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4614-7214;
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