TY - JOUR AU - Hauck, T. AB - Computational Mechanics 20 (1997) 41±45 Ó Springer-Verlag 1997 Numerical modelling of interface cracking in thermomechanically loaded elastoplastic bimaterials K. P. Herrmann, T. Hauck 1 given body initial and boundary values were speci®ed as Introduction follows: The structural performance of material compounds is es- (a) Heat convection at free body surfaces characterized by sentially affected by existing defects of various kinds. The a unit normal n failure analysis of such heterogeneous materials requires oT b the determination of stress states due to applied thermo- n ˆ ‰T ÿ TŠ ; …2† i e mechanical loads as well as the assessment of the resulting ox k stress-strain ®elds. The assessment in terms of failure is b being the coef®cient of heat transfer; performed on the basis of the local J-integral (in form of a (b) Heat insulation of the crack faces characterized by a vector j) which, for three-dimensional interface cracks, has unit normal n : recently been generalized by Herrmann and Hauck (1995) following the earlier work by Moran et al. (1987), Shih et al. oT n ˆ 0 ; …3† (1986) and Nikishkov and Atluri (1987). The failure ox analysis makes use of ®nite-element results from the (c) Constant TI - Numerical modelling of interface cracking in thermomechanically loaded elastoplastic bimaterials JF - Computational Mechanics DO - 10.1007/s004660050214 DA - 2014-03-16 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/numerical-modelling-of-interface-cracking-in-thermomechanically-loaded-pwAD9HxC9l SP - 41 EP - 45 VL - 20 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -