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Nonlinear vibration
of an edge-cracked beam with a cohesive zone, I: Nonlinear
bending load-displacement relations for a linear softening
cohesive law
Prasad S. Mokashi and Daniel A. Mendelsohn |
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Vol. 3 (2008), No. 8, 1573–1588
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Abstract |
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Part I of this paper describes the computations of the quasistatic nonlinear moment-slope relation for an edge-cracked beam element with a strictly linear softening cohesive zone ahead of the crack tip. A static plane stress linear elastic boundary element analysis is used in which the cohesive nonlinearity appears in the crack plane boundary conditions only. An iterative solution scheme is used to determine the unknown cohesive zone length, the cohesive displacement jumps, and the bending mode -integral. Interpreting the moment-slope relation as a generalized load-displacement relation the bending compliance (and slope) at a given applied moment are calculated from computed -integral values over a grid of applied moment and crack-length values. The dependence of the moment-slope relation on the cohesive law parameters is studied and the various computed moment-slope relations are then used in Part II to model the dynamic effect of the cohesive zone and law on the free-vibration of an edge-cracked simply-supported beam. |
Keywords
cohesive zone, linear softening, compliance, $J$-integral,
nonlinear load-displacement
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Milestones
Received: 30 October 2007
Revised: 10 June 2008
Accepted: 15 August 2008
Published: 1 October 2008
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Authors |
| Prasad S. Mokashi | |
| Department of Mechanical
Engineering Scott Laboratory The Ohio State University 201 W 19th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210 United States |
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| Daniel A. Mendelsohn | |
| Department of Mechanical
Engineering Scott Laboratory The Ohio State University 201 W 19th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210 United States |
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