摘要
The strain gradient plasticity theory is used to investigate the crack-tip field in a power law hardening material. Numerical solutions are presented for plane-stress mode I and mode II cracks under small scale yielding conditions. A comparison is made with the existing asymptotic fields. It is found that the size of the dominance zone for the near-tip asymptotic field, recently obtained by Chen et al., is on the order 5% of the intrinsic material length I. Remote from the dominance zone, the computed stress field tends to be the classical HRR field. Within the plastic zone only force-stress dominated solution is found for either mode I or mode II crack.
The strain gradient plasticity theory is used to investigate the crack-tip field in a power law hardening material. Numerical solutions are presented for plane-stress mode I and mode II cracks under small scale yielding conditions. A comparison is made with the existing asymptotic fields. It is found that the size of the dominance zone for the near-tip asymptotic field, recently obtained by Chen et al., is on the order 5% of the intrinsic material lengthI. Remote from the dominance zone, the computed stress field tends to be the classical HRR field. Within the plastic zone only force-stress dominated solution is found for either mode I or mode II crack.
