Surface Crack Growth Under Combined Mechanical and Hydraulic Pressure Loading

Objectives

Results

Schematic of hydraulic pressure loading on a cracked body caused by a roller.

Steady state pressure distributions at different times within a loading cycle under cyclic pressure loading at the crack mouth.
 

References

Hsia, K. J., Zhang, T.-L. and Socie, D. F., "Effect of crack surface morphology on the fracture behavior under mixed mode loading," ASTM Special Technical Publications 1296, in press.

Hsia, K. J. and Xu, Z.-Q., "The mathematical framework and an approximate solution of surface crack propagation under hydraulic pressure loading," International Journal of Fracture , 78, 363-378 (1996).

Xu, Z.-Q. and Hsia, K. J., "A numerical solution of surface crack under cyclic hydraulic pressure loading," ASME Journal of Tribology, 119 (4) 637-645 (1997).
 
 

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