Numerical Assessments of Cracks in Elastic-Plastic Materials

1. Introduction.- 2. Cracks under stationary conditions.- 2.1 Higher-order solutions for pressure-sensitive materials.- 2.2 Two-parameter characterizations for engineering materials.- 2.3 Effects of biaxial loads to plane stress cracks.- 2.4 Three-dimensional crack front fields.- 2.5 Remarks.- 3. Cracks under thermal-mechanical loading conditions.- 3.1 Characterization of cracks under high temperature gradients.- 3.2 Scaling of temperature-induced material inhomogeity.- 3.3 Effects of transient thermal loading.- 3.4 Remarks.- 4. Interface cracks.- 4.1 Stationary interface crack tip fields.- 4.2 Quasi-static crack growth.- 4.3 Dynamic interface crack growth.- 4.4 Remarks.- 5. Mixed mode crack propagation.- 5.1 Static crack growth under combined mode I and III conditions.- 5.2 Dynamic crack growth under combined mode I and III conditions.- 5.3 Remarks.- 6. Assessment of apex-V notches.- 6.1 Higher-order solutions for power-law hardening materials.- 6.2 Notches in pressure-sensitive materials.- 6.3 Remarks.- References.