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Computation of the Higher Order Derivatives of Energy Release Rates in a Multiply Cracked Structure for Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics and Size Effect Law  

Hwang, Chan-Gyu (서울벤처정보대학원대학교 유비쿼터스시스템학과)
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Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea / v.21, no.4, 2008 , pp. 391-399 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we further generalize the work of Lin and Abel to the case of the first and the second order derivatives of energy release rates for two-dimensional, multiply cracked systems. The direct integral expressions are presented for the energy release rates and their first and second order derivatives. The salient feature of this numerical method is that the energy release rates and their first and second order derivatives can be computed in a single analysis. It is demonstrated through a set of examples that the proposed method gives expectedly decreasing, but acceptably accurate results for the energy release rates and their first and second order derivatives. The computed errors were approximately 0.5% for the energy release rates, $3\sim5%$ for their first order derivatives and $10\sim20%$ for their second order derivatives for the mesh densities used in the examples. Potential applications of the present method include a universal size effect model and a probabilistic fracture analysis of cracked structures.
Keywords
virtual crack extension method; second order derivative of energy release rates; universal size effect model; probabilistic fracture mechanics analysis;
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