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Small-scale crack blunting at a bimaterial interface with Coulomb friction

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The deformation field near the tip of a tensional crack impinging upon a normally loaded bimaterial frictional interface is studied. By allowing the two materials to slide with respect to each other along the interface the high stresses around the crack tip are relaxed. The region of slip as well as the stress distribution inside the slip zone is obtained as a function of the far field loading parameter.

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  1. Department of Theoretical, Cornell University, 14850, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Y. C. Wang

  2. Department of Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 14850, Ithaca, New York, USA

    C. Y. Hui

  3. Civil Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 12180, Troy, New York, USA

    D. Lagoudas

  4. Mechanical Engineering Department, Northern Illinois University, 60115, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

    J. Papadopoulos

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Wang, Y.C., Hui, C.Y., Lagoudas, D. et al. Small-scale crack blunting at a bimaterial interface with Coulomb friction. Int J Fract 52, 293–306 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00034085

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