Stress Intensity Factor for a Rectangular Interface Crack in Three Dimensional Bimaterials

Abstract

In this paper, stress intensity factors for a three dimensional rectangular interfacial crack are considered on the idea of the body force method. In the numerical calculations, unknown body force densities are approximated by the products of the fundamental densities and power series; here the fundamental densities are chosen to express singular stress fields due to an interface crack exactly. The calculation shows that the present method gives rapidly converging numerical solutions and highly satisfied boundary conditions. The stress intensity factors for a rectangular interface crack are indicated accurately with varying the aspect ratio, and biomaterial parameter.