• Composites Research
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.44-50
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• 2003

The damage zone around a crack tip occurring before the fracture is a significant domain. which affects the toughening mechanism of materials. In this study. the growth process of damage zone in the vicinity of crack tip for rubber-modified epoxy resin is investigated using an acoustic emission(AE) analysis. The weight fractions of rubber(CTBN 1300$\times$B) in rubber-modified epoxy resin are 5 wt% and 15 wt%. The fracture toughness($K_{IC}$) and the fracture energy($G_{IC}$) were measured using 3 point bending single-edge notched specimens. The damage zone and rubber particles distributed around the crack tip were observed by a polarized optical microscope and an atomic force microscope(AFM). The damage zone around crack tip of rubber-modified epoxy resin was formed at 13 % loading and developed until 57 % loading of the fracture load. The crack initiated at 57 % loading grew repeatedly in the stick-slip propagation behavior. Based on time-frequency analysis, it was confirmed that AE signals with frequency bands of 0.15~0.20 MHz and 0.20~0.30 MHz were generated from cavitation and stable/unstable cracking inside the damage zone.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.393-399
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• 2013

In this paper, a novel approach to estimate cohesive laws for the mode I fracture of the graphene is presented by combining molecular dynamic simulations and an inverse algorithm based on field projection method and finite element method. The determination of crack-tip cohesive laws of the graphene based on continuum mechanics is a non-trivial inverse problem of finding unknown tractions and separations from atomic simulations. The displacements of molecular dynamic simulations in a region far away from the crack tip are transferred to finite element nodes by using moving least square approximation. Inverse analyses for extracting unknown cohesive tractions and separation behind the crack tip can be carried out by using conservation nature of the interaction J- and M-integrals with numerical auxiliary fields which are generated by systematically imposing uniform surface tractions element-by-element along the crack surfaces in finite element models. The preset method can be a very successful approach to extract crack-tip cohesive laws from molecular dynamic simulations as a scale bridging method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.473-478
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the behaviour of the plastic deformed zone at crack tip on the standard Charpy specimens which were taken from the multi-passed weld block of the pressure vessel steel. Notch was machined on the standard Charpy test specimens and pre-crack which was located around the fusion line was made under the repeat load. Four point bend and acoustic emission tests were carried out simultaneously. The size of plastic region at crack tip was calculated using stress intensity factor. Relationships between characteristics of acoustic emission and plastic zone size at crack tip were discussed through the cumulative AE energy. Regardless of the specimens, AE signals were absent within the elastic region almost and most of AE signals were produced at the plastic deformation region from yield point to the mid-point between yield and maximum load. More AE signals for the weldment were produced compared with the base-metal and PWHT specimen. Relations between plastic deformed zones at crack tip and cumulative AE energy for the weldment and PWHT specimen were different quietly from the base-metal. Besides, number of AE counts for the weldment was the larger than those of the base-metal and PWHT specimen.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.175-186
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• 1995

The determination of the stress intensity factors is investigated by sur-face integral method around the crack tip of the nlass~vc: concrete structure. The surface integral met hod is naturally derived from the standal-ci path integral J. Howevcr. In the J integral method, pressure in the crack-face and body forces can not be considered, while this theory has advantage of ccmsidering many kind of forces, so t.his theory will be useful in investigating more accurate strt:ss states around crack tip. Furthermore. t h~s rrlethod can elerninate unntussary process of using singular elements and fine mesh around crack tip which is used 11; modelling the singularity around crack tip. A computer program for determming $K_I$, $K_{II}$ is tfcvulopcd by applying this theory. $K_I$, $K_{II}$ values usmg X noded isoparametric elements which was proved and variation of the stress intensity factor was investigated by application of darn structures.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.43-55
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• 1987

본 연구는 Orthotropic 재료에 존재하는 균열선단에서의 응력장의 양상에 대하여 지금까지의 연구들에서 상세하게 고려되지 않았던 여러 탄성계수들의 영향을 평면-변형조건 하에서 고찰하였다. 여러 하중조건과 경계조건 하에서의 일반적인 이방성 재료에 존재하는 균열선단에서의 응력자의 양상도 고찰하였으며, $a_{11}S^4-2a_{16}S^3+(2a_{12}+a_{66})S^2-2a_{26}S+a_{22}=0$인 특성방정식의 4근은 Cardano와 Ferrar의 해법을 쓴 새로운 단순기법에 의해 해석하였고 특성방정식의 4근에 미치는 일반적인 이방성 재료의 물성치 즉 Exx, Eyy, Ezz, Gxy, ${\nu}_{zx}$, ${\nu}_{xy}$,${\nu}_{yz}$, ${\eta}$ ${\eta}$xy,x, ${\eta}$xy, y, ${\eta}$xy,z , 들의 영향들에 대해 상세히 연구되었다. 또한 균열선단부근에서의 응력분포 양상을 재료의 물성치와 경계조건 및 하중조건들로써 체계적으로 연구하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1530-1537
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• 1991

본 연구에서는 반무한 직선 계면균열의 상하면에 임의로 분포하는 어떠한 하 중에 대해서도 그 해석이 가능한 그린함수(Green's function)를 구하고자 한다. 이 를 위하여 반무한 직선 계면균열상의 임의의 한 점에 평면 집중하중이 작용하는 문제 와 비평면 집중전단하중이 작용하는 문제를 각각 택하였고, 이때 계면균열의 선단은 열려있다고 가정하였다. 이 문제를 풀므로써 균열선단부근의 응력성분을 결정하고 이로부터 그린함수의 의미를 지니는 응력강도계수에 대한 폐형해를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.226-226
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• 2003

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.353-362
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• 1999

This study is aimed to obtain the critical crack lengthes of the concrete gravity dam and to investigate variation of the effective stress intensity factors at the crack tips of multiple cracks. Applied loads are dynamic load composed of blast vibration and hydrodynamic pressure which can be considered in case of the blast work at near construction site, in addition to static load composed of hydrostatic pressure, crack pressure, and gravity load of the dam. The critical crack lengthes were calculated according to the crack locations, directions, and magnitudes of blast vibration. Also variation of the effective stress intensity factors with respect to the multiple crack shapes and distances between the crack tips was investigated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.713-721
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• 2012

The finite element simulations of fatigue crack growth are carried out. Using only the mechanical properties usually obtained from the tensile test as input data, we attempted to predict the fatigue crack growth behavior. The critical crack opening displacement is determined by monitoring the change in displacements at the node close to the crack tip. Crack growth is simulated by debonding the crack tip node. The exponent in the Paris law was determined and compared to the published exponent. Plotting with respect to the effective stress intensity factor range yielded more consistent results.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.11 s.254
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• pp.1455-1460
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• 2006

The relationship between fatigue crack growth behavior and cyclic crack tip opening displacement is studied. An elastic-plastic finite element analysis (FEA) is performed to examine the growth behavior of fatigue crack, where the contact elements are used in the mesh of the crack tip area. We investigate the relationship between the reversed plastic zone size and the changes of the cyclic crack tip opening displacement along the crack growth. We investigate the effect of the element size when predict fatigue crack opening behavior using the cyclic crack tip opening displacement obtained from FEA. The cyclic crack tip opening displacement is related to fatigue crack opening behavior.