Calculation of dynamic stress intensity factors and T-stress using an improved SBFEM

Xinran Tian , Chengbin Du , Shangqiu Dai , Denghong Chen

Abstract

The scaled boundary finite element method is extended to evaluate the dynamic stress intensity factors and T-stress with a numerical procedure based on the improved continued-fraction. The improved continued-fraction approach for the dynamic stiffness matrix is introduced to represent the inertial effect at high frequencies, which leads to numerically better conditioned matrices. After separating the singular stress term from other high order terms, the internal displacements can be obtained by numerical integration and no mesh refinement is needed around the crack tip. The condition numbers of coefficient matrix of the improved method are much smaller than that of the original method, which shows that the improved algorithm can obtain well-conditioned coefficient matrices, and the efficiency of the solution process and its stability can be significantly improved. Several numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the increased robustness and efficiency of the proposed method in both homogeneous and bimaterial crack problems.

Key Words

scaled boundary finite element method; stress intensity factors; T-stress; improved continued-fractions

Address

Xinran Tian, Chengbin Du and Shangqiu Dai — Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Denghong Chen — College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China

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