An antiplane crack emerging from the top of a composite functional gradient wedge

Abstract

In the paper, the problem on an interface longitudinal shear crack located between two functionally graded wedge-shaped regions and emerging from their common vertex has been considered. The shear modules of the materials are quadratic functions of the polar angle. This kind of functional inhomogeneity made it possible to express all the components of the elastic field through a single harmonic function. Using the Mellin integral transform, the problem was reduced to the Wiener – Hopf scalar equation, for which an exact solution was obtained. The influence of gradients of elastic properties of materials and geometric parameters of the structure on the stress intensity factor was studied.

Keywords

• functionally graded wedge
• interface crack of longitudinal shear
• stress intensity factor