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welcome to lecture number nine of modern
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construction materials today we're going
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to talk about fracture mechanics and uh
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fracture mechanics is important because
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lot of materials fail in a brittle
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Manner and when defects occur in them
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then things get worse these de defects
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propagate into cracks and you have
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sudden catastrophic
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failure I start with this picture of the
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minakshi sundareshwar temple in Mad
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which is about 600 to 800 years old and
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uh most of it is made out of granite and
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around this Temple tank we have many
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many many columns of
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stone some of these stone columns have
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started to crack and they are being
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replaced and this cracking is due to
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settlement of the ground around the pond
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and many other environmental
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factors what else can fracture cause
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brittle facture can cause sudden failure
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as we see in this picture we cracks
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occurred in the fuselage of this plane
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while it was being uh while it was in
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flight
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and part of the fuselage just came
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off most of the people surprisingly
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survived because they had their seat
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belts
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on what happened was in this Boeing 737
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297 that was flying in Hawaii was
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that a crack propagated along the
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section that was riveted after many
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flights due to fatigue loading defects
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had started to propagate
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along the
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circumference of the
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fuselage where it was reted a crack
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suddenly developed and the fuselage was
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Tor away unfortunately some people were
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killed during this
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accident another case that we've already
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discussed is that of the failure of the
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Liberty ships and some T2 tankers that
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were built in World War II and a similar
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Behavior also happened in the Titanic or
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what they say happened to the Titanic
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when it sunk here the
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weld that was used due to the cold
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weather and fatigue became brittle and a
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crack propagated this is what was seen
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in one of these ships in the Boston
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Harbor crack developed and suddenly this
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ship broke into two
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brittle facture can occur in smaller
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levels smaller scales but with
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disastrous consequences like in this
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case of a pipeline failing in Australia
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which led to the spilling of about 2
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million lers of crude oil causing uh
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ecosystem damage in the mangrove lined
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Canal flowing into the Brisbane River in
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2003 huge financial loss and huge
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ecological loss
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another very interesting case of a
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catastrophic failure occurred in two of
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the three steel gers of the Hanan bridge
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in Milwaukee in the US in the year 2000
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and here a generally ductile material
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such as steel due to the triaxial
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constraint that was brought about by the
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bracing system led to brittle crack
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propagation instead of a ductile failure
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it was confined so much it was
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constrained so much that the material
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would not yield but failed due to
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brittle
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cracking and these are some of the
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cracks that you see in the flung and in
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the web
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plate this occurred over a period of a
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few hours and the bridge was then made
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unserviceable more brittle materials are
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more prone to
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fracture these are pictures of the wooi
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Bridge during the Chichi earthquake in
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Taiwan in 1999 where the there was a
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fault very near the bridge and the
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bridge had a lot of lateral loads
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resulting in severe cracking of the pi
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large movements about 2 m that the
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bridge was not designed for and the
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concrete though it was reinforced failed
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by
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cracking so why fracture mechanics what
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is different about fracture
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mechanics conventional design procedures
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that are based on the maximum stress
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Criterion are not always
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adequate failure theories and Concepts
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that we discussed in the previous two
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lectures always consider a material free
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of defects and free of
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discontinuities fracture mechanics now
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determines failure based not only on the
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applied
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stress but also on the crack or the
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floor that is present and brings in new
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materials parameters like fracture
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toughness instead of just the stress or
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the strain
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limit instead of the magnitude of stress
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or
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strain which are very difficult to
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determine have very high values in any
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case near the crack tip fracture
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mechanics is concerned primarily with
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the distribution of stresses the stress
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fields and the the displacement fields
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in the vicinity of the crack
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tip this is particularly applicable to
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brittle
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materials like concrete Rock glass
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Ceramics and so on but under certain
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circumstances other materials also fail
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in a brittle manner like we saw in some
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of the examples of the pipes and the
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gers fracture mechanics also helps us
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understand why there is such a large
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difference between the theor itical
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material fracture strength that we can
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calculate from the bond energy remember
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when we looked at the Condon M diagram
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linking the energy with the interatomic
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distance there was a bonding energy and
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we could also see what happens to this
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bonding energy as the distance between
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the atoms changes so if we were to
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calculate the strength of the material
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from those values of bond energy we
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would find that that is much much higher
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than what is actually measured in the
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lab on a material probably two to three
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orders of magnitude higher so there is a
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big difference between the actual
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strength and the theoretical strength
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the actual strength being much lower
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than the theoretical
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strength the reason for this was
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categorically stated by Griffith in 1920
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when he concluded that any material any
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real material has flaws microcracks or
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some other defects and these defects
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concentrate the stress so much that the
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theoretical fracture stress is reached
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in small points small locations in small
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areas localized around these
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defects so as the theoretical fracture
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stress is reached at those points the
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cracks start to propagate
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even though the applied stress is less
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than the theoretical fracture stress and
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finally fracture
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occurs now let us try to
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visualize how stress concentration is
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induced and for this we look at this
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simple
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diagram on the left we have a panel
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subjected to a tensile load so these are
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the applied stresses Sigma outside the
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panel now imagine a Channel with water
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flowing in
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it okay so these lines would then be the
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stream
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lines water is Flowing similarly we can
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visualize in the case of a panel under
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stress that these would be the stress
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flow lines so stress has to go from one
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end to the other through the body so
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these are can be called the stress flow
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lines now going back to the Chan with
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water flowing example think of what will
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happen if you put your hand at one of
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the edges you put your hand into the
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flowing water and what would
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happen you would have now water moving
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faster along the edge of your hand
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because you have blocked a part of the
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flow and you will find some currents Ed
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currents forming around the
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edges so there is a concentration of
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flow there is a faster flow occurring at
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the edge of your and because you have
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blocked part of the
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channel now coming back to our stress
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example a similar thing happens suppose
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I have this panel and I make a cut in it
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so I decrease the section I force the
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flow of stress to go around this cut
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that I have made or a notch that I have
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made so here you have a zone of stress
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concentration so the stress
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concentration occurs at
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here and we find that the stress here
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can be actually much higher than the
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stress applied far away from this defect
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or the far field
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stress this stress now can reach at a
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small area the theoretical fracture
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stress even though the stress applied
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far away is much less and this causes
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the propagation of the crack makes
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things worse higher stress concentration
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and the failure
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continues so stress concentration can be
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visualized as a concentration of stress
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flow
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lines due to some geometrical
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discontinuity in the
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continum now there are lot of equations
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which describe the stresses that form
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round
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defects we can look at the case of an
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elliptical defect or void in a plate say
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an infinite plate subjected to a tensile
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stress Sigma subt you have now a defect
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or a crack
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inside and this defect is now we assume
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in the form of a of an
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ellipse defined by a length of 2 c and a
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width of 2
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B the radius at the end is row
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so let us see what happens to the
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stresses in the vicinity of the crack
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tip so we go here this is now the crack
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tip with a semi length of c a semi
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length of B this is as I told you the
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radius of the crack tip and if we
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consider a case of C = 3B the solution
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given in Yang we find that the stress in
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this direction Direction in the
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direction of the pull caused by the
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applied stress we find that at the crack
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tip this stress is almost five times the
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stress appli on the x-axis here we have
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Sigma which is the stress at any point
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divided by the applied stress Sigma
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subt this is the sigma y y and this is
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Sigma XX the stress this
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direction so we find that Sigma y y is
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Amplified almost five times at the
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vicinity of this defect
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tip Sigma XX also is quite high
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in in here far away Sigma
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xx and sigma y y will become smaller but
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near the crack tip you have very high
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values and what we see is that if the
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defect becomes sharper and sharper that
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is C becomes very large compared to row
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the radius that is for a defect that is
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very sharp tending to be a crack this
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stress now reaches Infinity in the
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theoretical sense that is there is a
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singularity of stress in the crack tip
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the crack tip stresses become
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singular so this can also be understood
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by looking at the lce or the atomic
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bonds near a crack tip we have a far
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stress that is
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Sigma that is applied far away from the
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defect or crack now the stresses have to
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go around the crack tip like we saw in
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these stress flow diagrams and it will
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happen that the bond which is nearest to
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the crack tip or forms the crack tip
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will be very highly stressed lot of
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stress goes through here the stress here
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now is much more than Sigma and this
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reaches a point of failure so this Bond
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breaks and then the crack now has
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advanced by one latis plane and next the
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stress will be taken by this Bond CD and
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so on so this crack now keeps
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propagating through the body this is the
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reason why even though when you have a
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stress that is applied which is smaller
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than the theoretical fracture stress
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failure stress you have failure because
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the bonds that are near the defect
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take very high stresses and start
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failing one by
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one there are different ways that
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fracture can occur and the three pure
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modes into which all the other modes can
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be put into our mode one where we have a
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tension or opening mode this this is
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called the opening
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mode where you have a crack which is
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propagating due to tensile forces so
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something is opening this we are pulling
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on either side and the crack opens this
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is the most common mode of failure of
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most materials due to tension the crack
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develops perpendicular to the applied
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tension and you have
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failure now this is
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a shearing
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mode where you have a in plane here
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we have a case where we are propagating
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a crack by shearing this is not very
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common one example is what you would
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have seen in a direct Shear test in your
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soils lab when you did a test on a rock
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joint or in over
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soil where two sides of the material are
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slipped with respect to each other which
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are sheared and a crack forms here along
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this Shear plane without much opening so
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this is called inlan Shear this has
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applications in earthquake engineering
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where there are slipping of
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joints mode three is called the tearing
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mode this is out of plain
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Shear where you have something tearing
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like when you tear a piece of paper the
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material now twists
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and you have shearing occurring out of
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plane so there is some torsion here
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occurring so these are the three
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principal modes the most common is mode
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one most of our materials that we
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consider
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are failing in mode one or in the
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tensile mode with an opening crack let
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us look more in detail in what happens
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in mode one or for an opening crack what
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we can imagine is now we have a crack
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a sharp crack and let us see what
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happens in front of this crack so the
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crack is advancing this
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way and if we look at a stress state of
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a point ahead of the crack tip defined
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by this distance from the crack tip R
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and an angle Theta we would find that
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the stresses become
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infinite as it approaches as we approach
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the crack tip
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and this increase in stress is defined
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by the factor R to the^ of minus
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1/2 so there is a singularity in the
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stresses the stresses increase
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as R to the^ of -2
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increases so when R becomes zero the
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stresses become
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infinite that's why it's called a
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singular stress field and the equations
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for this are given
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here where we have Sigma X Sigma Y and
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to XY the stresses ahead of the crack
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tip the point that we are discussing is
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defined in terms of R being the distance
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from the crack tip to that point Theta
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being the angle from the crack
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plane and what we find here is we have a
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term here which is k1 K1 being the stret
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intensity
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factor divided by 2 pi r to the^ of 1/2
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and here you see the term R to ^ of
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minus
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1/2 coming
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in for the stress Singularity as R
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becomes smaller as we approach the crack
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tip these values become larger and
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larger and when R becomes zero these
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stresses become
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infinite the other
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stresses in this case would be tox to y
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equal to 0 and sigma Z the stress
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perpendicular to the plane would be mu *
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Sigma x + Sigma y mu being the pound
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ratio what is important here is that we
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have introduced the term K1 K1 for the
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mode one which is the stress intensity
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factor this is one of the terms that we
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will continue to give importance as we
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discussed fracture mechanics
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K1 can be considered as a single
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parameter describing the stress in the
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displacement fields near the crack
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tip to calculate it we generally
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consider the material to be linear
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elastic and both isotropic and
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homogeneous that is the properties are
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uniform and the material is behaving in
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a linear elastic manner even though it
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is fracturing this has limitations and
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it can be incorrect for many materials
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but generally we assume that the
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approximations involved in the
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application of linear elastic fracture
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mechanics is reasonable we get
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reasonable values and we can use these
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values and modify them later to bring in
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other nonlinearities
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K1 has the dimension of stress times the
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square root of
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length such as MEAP Pascal square root
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of
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meter how we can apply or calculate K1
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say we have a panel here with a c a
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crack of length a and we have a far
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field stress applied of
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Sigma K1 will then be equal to Sigma
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which is the applied stress times F
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which is a function of the geometry say
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the ratio between the width and the
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length and crack length times square
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root of Pi a a again being the crack
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length so through tests of
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this type of element we can get K1 we
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can find out when failure occurs and
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that would be the critical value of
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K1 and if we know this we can calculate
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K1 for any applied Sigma and
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a in another form suppose you have a
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beam we can put K1 in form of load p is
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the applied load again we have a beam
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now with a certain depth and a certain
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width B is the width of the beam the
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thickness of the beam D is the depth of
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the beam and K1 could be put in the form
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of P divided by
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BD times the square root of d f alpha
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alpha being the a by D Ratio or the
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relative crack depth ratio that is a
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this is now a and a divided by D is
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Alpha F Alpha is a function that depends
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on the span depth ratio this is now the
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span
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the span depth ratio defines this
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function f Alpha and this can be
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calculated from numerical analysis or
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otherwise so K1 can be determined
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depending on the geometry of the element
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and the defect length or the crack
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length until now what we've discussed is
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called linear elastic fracture mechanics
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or lefm the main features to summarize
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are that the fracture Criterion involves
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only one material
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parameter which is related to the near
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tip stress field and the energy of the
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structure the stresses near the crack
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tip have an R to the ^ of
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min-2 Singularity and become infinite at
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the crack
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tip during fracture we assume that the
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entire body remains elastic
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and whatever energy is dissipated during
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fracture occurs only at the crack tip
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that is fracture occurs at a point which
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is the CCP these are the main features
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of linear elastic fracture mechanics and
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these have limitations they cannot be
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applied to all materials and all
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situations in this framework when do we
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consider the crack to
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propagate crack propagation according to
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linear elastic fracture mechanics occurs
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when K1 is greater than or equal to K1 C
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so this is the fracture
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Criterion K1 if you remember comes from
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the geometry of the element the stress
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applied or the load applied and the
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defect K1 C is a material property it's
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a material parameter called the critical
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stress intensity factor of fracture t
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toughness it's a material property so on
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the right side you have a material
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property and the left you have a
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parameter which depends on the load that
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you apply the type of structure and the
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defect that it has when K1 increases and
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reaches a value of k1c or surpasses the
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value of k1c the crack starts
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propagating so this is the failure
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Criterion according to linear elastic
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fracture mechanics
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we can look at a table of
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values of fracture
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toughness we see that the values of
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materials that we always think of as
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brittle like glass cement ice rocks
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other Ceramics are lower the fracture
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toughness is low so that's why these
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materials crack rather than
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yield on the other hand we have Metals
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ductile Metals the pure metals are most
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ductile right at the top where the
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fracture toughness is so high that these
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materials also always yield they do not
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crack or
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rupture again at the bottom we have
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materials like epoxies which are very
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brittle slightly higher up would be
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other polymers which are not so brittle
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like polypropylene and
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nylon in the middle we have Composites
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and and wood wood again parallel to
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grain cracks more easily that is the
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grain separate we'll look at this again
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when we talk about
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Timber perpendicular to the grain there
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is a higher crack resistance the
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fracture toughness is higher Composites
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which are polymers reinforced with
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different types of fibers are more at
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the
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top Boron fiber glass fiber carbon fiber
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reinforced polymers
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some materials that we can deal with in
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civil
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engineering are listed here we have like
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we said before higher values of fracture
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toughness for
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Metals pressure vessel
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steel 210 megapascal root of meter
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copper 110 and so on so metals have
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relatively higher fracture toughness
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values
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and if you see here the more brittle
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materials have much lower almost two
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orders of magnitude
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lower glass cement paste concrete have
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very low fracture toughness values so
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they crack more easily and undergo
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brittle failure nylon for reference here
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would be intermediate slightly higher
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than these brittle materials but still
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not comparable to those
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of
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metals another way of considering
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fracture involves the energy release
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rate instead of the K1 which is the
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stress intensity
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factor we can look at fracture mechanics
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in terms of the energy release
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rate whenever a new crack is formed a
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surface is formed and for this we
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require energy so all crack extend
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ition requires energy to be available
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for the crack growth to occur this
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energy should be sufficient to overcome
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whatever resistance that comes from the
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material itself and this material
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resistance can come from the new energy
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that is going to be created plastic work
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or the work that goes into the yielding
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and any other type of energy dissipation
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like heating noise and so on all that is
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some for form of energy that accompanies
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a
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crack we Define what is called the
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energy release rate as the rate of
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change in potential energy with crack
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area we find what is the rate of change
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of potential energy for every unit crack
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area to be created this again for a
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linear elastic
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material what Irvin found in 1956 was a
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fracture Criterion could be given in
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this form where G is the energy release
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rate this now depends on the stresses
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the load applied and the body the shape
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of the structure shape of the element
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and the
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defects this has to be greater than or
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equal to a material parameter the
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critical energy release rate or the
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fracture energy so this also could be a
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failure criter but these two failure
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criteria that we've seen K1 greater than
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or equal to K1 C and G greater than or
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equal to GC are not
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independent it was found that K1 which
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characterizes the stress and
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displacement fields near the crack tip
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which is a local parameter we looking at
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what happens near the crack tip and G
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which quantifies the net change over the
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body how the potential energy changes
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due to this crack extension
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which can be described as a global
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Behavior are related that K and G K1 and
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G are
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related in irin in 1957 showed that
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there is a unique relation between K1
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and
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G G is equal to K1 s/ e Prime okay so
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what we looked at previously are not too
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independent failure Criterion but they
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are
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related and K1 is a parameter which is
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coming from the near tip stresses and
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displacements and G gives us the global
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change in
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energy e Prime here is given as e for
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plain stress and E / 1 - new squ for
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plain strain new being the poison
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ratio fracture energy can also be uh
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determined and this is a chart again
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from ashb and Jones showing typical
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fracture values we find again that the
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fracture energy for brittle materials
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like Ceramics rocks cement glass are at
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the bottom we have here the group of
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brittle
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materials and at the top we have the
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pure ductile metals and the Alloys that
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follow so again we find that these
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materials fail in a brittle manner these
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materials will not fail in a brittle
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Manner and would rather yield polymers
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are somewhere in the middle we have
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epoxies at the bottom and less brittle
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polymers at the top like polypropylene
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and Composites in the again in the
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middle the units of fracture energy or
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the critical energy release rate are
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Jews per square meter or Newton per
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meter we had discussed brittle ductile
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transition that can also be now related
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with the fracture toughness and Fracture
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energy we find like you see in the graph
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on the left that fracture energy
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increases with an increase in
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temperature so fracture energy increases
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with an increase in
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temperature so a ductile metal when it
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becomes colder will have a fracture
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energy that is decreasing and can become
00:31:48
brittle and fail in a brittle M fracture
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energy also increases when there is a
00:31:54
decrease in loading rate that is as the
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loading rate increases a material will
00:32:02
have lower fracture energy it can become
00:32:04
brittle the fracture energy increases as
00:32:08
the loading rate decreases if you load
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slower the fracture energy is higher
00:32:13
there is a less tendency for brittle
00:32:15
failure when you load very very slowly
00:32:18
when you load load very fast it is a you
00:32:22
see a decrease in fracture energy and a
00:32:24
higher tendency for brittle failure to
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occur
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a third case which shows a increase in
00:32:33
fracture energy is a decrease in
00:32:36
triaxiality triaxiality is the
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confinement and the degree of constraint
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as you remove
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constraints the fracture energy
00:32:48
increases opposed to when you have
00:32:51
increasing triaxiality the fracture
00:32:53
energy decreases and you have brittle
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failure this was like in the case of the
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bridge that we saw from
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Milwaukee where there was higher
00:33:02
triaxiality leading to brittle type of
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failure even though the material is
00:33:07
characteristically
00:33:09
ductile so this is something interesting
00:33:12
that you should remember what causes a
00:33:14
brittle to ductile transition and how it
00:33:17
can be related to the fracture
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energy whenever the fracture energy is
00:33:22
lower the tendency for brittle failure
00:33:25
is higher
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when the fracture energy is high you can
00:33:30
have more of yield type failure ductile
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failure rather than brittle
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failure here you see how fracture
00:33:39
toughness varies with temperature for a
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low alloy structural steel in this curve
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you have on the y- axis fracture
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toughness x-axis you have temperature
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and you find that as temperature
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decreases the fracture toughness
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decreases the material is becoming less
00:33:57
ductile and more brittle as the
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temperature is
00:34:01
decreasing this is the corresponding
00:34:04
trend for the eeld stress which keeps
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decreasing as we increase the
00:34:10
temperature heel stress increases as the
00:34:13
temperature decreases whereas the
00:34:14
fracture toughness decreases as
00:34:16
temperature decreases the material
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becomes Little Bit Stronger but more
00:34:21
brittle as the temperature drops and
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this is what gave rise to the failures
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of Steel elements in the ships that we
00:34:29
saw in very low
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temperatures in terms of loading rate
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when the loading rate becomes faster
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here we have on the x-axis uh the
00:34:41
loading rate and Y AIS we have the
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fracture toughness of Steel we find that
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as we load faster the loading rate is
00:34:48
higher there the fracture toughness
00:34:50
decreases that is there is a tendency
00:34:53
for more brittle failure when the
00:34:55
loading rate is faster
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and the failure would be more ductile
00:35:01
when you slowly load it this is the
00:35:03
reason that we intuitively always try to
00:35:06
break things very fast when we want them
00:35:08
to crack we apply a very fast load when
00:35:11
we want something to crack into
00:35:13
two where we are intuitively decreasing
00:35:17
the fracture toughness by increasing the
00:35:19
loading rate so we'll stop here with
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this part we've introduced linear
00:35:24
elastic fracture mechanics we've looked
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at the concepts and very interestingly
00:35:28
we've seen how at the tip of a crack we
00:35:32
can have very high stresses much higher
00:35:34
than what is applied far away and in the
00:35:37
case of linear elastic fracture
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mechanics the stress can become singular
00:35:43
or infinite at the crack tip we then
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went on to Define failure criteria in
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terms of the stress intensity factor
00:35:52
K1 and the energy release rate G and in
00:35:57
both the cases fracture occurs when
00:36:00
these
00:36:01
parameters surpass or equal the
00:36:04
corresponding material
00:36:06
property fracture occurs when K1 is
00:36:09
equal to or greater than K1 C K1 c is
00:36:13
now the fracture toughness of material
00:36:15
parameter or alternatively we can see
00:36:18
that fracture will occur or crack
00:36:21
propagation will occur when G the energy
00:36:24
release rate is greater than or equal to
00:36:26
G Sub C which is the fracture toughness
00:36:29
Or the critical strain energy release
00:36:31
rate we also saw what happens to these
00:36:35
fracture parameters under conditions of
00:36:38
increasing temperature triaxiality and
00:36:41
loading rate and we found that under
00:36:44
these changing conditions there can be a
00:36:48
ductile to brittle transition or brittle
00:36:49
to ductile transition and this could
00:36:52
change the way the material fails a
00:36:55
ductile material could end up failing in
00:36:57
a Brit Manner and vice versa in the
00:37:00
second part of this lecture we'll go on
00:37:02
to see how different materials fail in
00:37:06
fracture what happens at the crack tip
00:37:08
what controls the crack
00:37:11
resistance we look at Metals we look at
00:37:14
polymers we look at concrete and we look
00:37:16
at some of the models which go beyond
00:37:19
just linear elastic fracture mechanics
00:37:21
these could be called nonlinear fracture
00:37:23
models and we'll see some applications
00:37:27
of these models and at the end of the
00:37:29
next lecture we'll also bring in the
00:37:32
effect of probability the variations in
00:37:35
the defects that we see in different
00:37:38
materials and how the probability of the
00:37:41
defect occurring can change the strength
00:37:44
that we get when you have a brittle
00:37:46
failure thank you
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