...Ran Liu; Qun Li In this paper, an innovative interface fracture criterion is proposed based on the concept of configurational forces in material space. In this criterion, the crack-tip configurational forces as the driving force are introduced to describe the interface crack evolution under mixed...

...Subramanyam Reddy Matli; Ella Rubin; Leslie Banks-Sills An interface crack between single crystal silicon (SC-Si) and silicone rubber is examined. The first term of the asymptotic solution for this interface crack is derived. Mixed mode fracture tests were performed on Brazilian disk specimens...

...Leslie Banks-Sills Failure criteria for a crack between two dissimilar materials are presented. Test data from three different material pairs are considered. The first two consist of an interface crack between glass and epoxy and two dissimilar ceramic clays. For the third material pair...

...Jia-Min Zhao; He-Ling Wang; Bin Liu Due to the oscillatory singular stress field around a crack tip, interface fracture has some peculiar features. This paper is focused on two of them. One can be reflected by a proposed paradox that geometrically similar structures with interface cracks under...

...Linzhi Wu; Hongjun Yu; Licheng Guo; Qilin He; Shanyi Du A new interaction integral formulation is derived for obtaining mixed-mode stress intensity factors (SIFs) of an interface crack with the tip close to complicated material interfaces. The method is a conservation integral that relies on two...

...Q. Li; Y. H. Chen A semi-permeable interface crack in infinite elastic dielectric/piezoelectric bimaterials under combined electric and mechanical loading is studied by using the Stroh complex variable theory. Attention is focused on the influence induced from the permittivity of the medium inside...

...Federico París; Elena Correa; Vladislav Mantič Under loads normal to the direction of the fibers, composites suffer failures that are known as matrix or interfiber failures, typically involving interface cracks between matrix and fibers, the coalescence of which originates macrocracks...

...R. Li; G. A. Kardomateas Taking the electric–magnetic field inside the interface crack into account, the interface crack problem of dissimilar piezoelectromagneto (PEMO)–elastic anisotropic bimaterials under in-plane deformation is investigated. The conditions to decouple the in-plane and anti...