Photoelasticity method is used to study experimentally the complete Williams series expansion of the stress and displacement fields in the vicinity of the crack tip in isotropic linear elastic plates under Mixed Mode loading. The distribution of the isochromatic fridge patterns is employed for obtaining the stress field near the crack tip by the use of the complete Williams asymptotic expansion for various classes of the experimental specimens (plates with two collinear cracks under tensile loading and under mixed mode loading conditions). The higher order terms of the Williams series expansion are taken into account and the coefficients of the higher order terms are experimentally obtained. The stress field equation of Williams up to fifty terms in each in mode I and mode II has been considered. The comparison of the experimental results and the calculations performed with finite element analysis has shown the importance and significant advantages of photoelastic observations for the multi-parameter description of the stress field in the neighborhood of the crack tip.
In the present paper the crack propagation direction angles on the basis of three different fracture criteria are found. The maximum tangential stress criterion, the minimum strain energy density criterion and the deformation criterion are used and analysed. The generalized forms of these criteria have been used. It implies that the crack propagation direction angles are obtained with the Williams series expansion in which the higher order terms are kept. The calculations are performed in Waterloo Maple computer algebra software. The analysis of the crack propagation direction angles show that the influence of the higher order terms cant be ignored. The angles differ considerably when the higher order terms are taken into account.
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