Fast crack propagation correlated with crack tip stress in 2D hexagonal atomic lattices |
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Authors: | Xiujin Yang Hong Tian Bin Zhang |
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Affiliation: | 1.State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, and College of Aerospace Engineering,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing,China |
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Abstract: | We construct strip finite element models of 2D hexagonal atomic lattices with initial cracks to simulate dynamic crack propagation under mode \(\mathrm{I}\) displacement loading, in which the atomic bonds of 2D lattices are represented by Timoshenko beam elements. Series of 2D lattices, including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and virtual graphene-like materials, are modeled by varying the nonlinear constitutive relations of beam elements. Branching and oscillation phenomena inevitably occur in fast-propagating crack when the crack speed reaches a critical value, which is closely related to the stress field near the crack tip. Our results reveal that the size of nominal plastic zone \(r_{p}\) around crack front varies with different 2D lattices at both crack initiation and branching. The critical branching speeds \(V_{\mathrm {C}}\) change with material properties, and is correlated with the local stresses around the crack front. Further, we find that \(V_{\mathrm {C}}\) increases with the increment of conditional yield stresses of 2D lattices, but \(V_{\mathrm {C}}\) decreases with the increment of \(r_{p}\) monotonously and linearly at crack branching. Therefore, nonlinear zone, formed by redistributed singular stresses at crack tip, dominates crack kinking or branching during fast crack propagation. |
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