CRACK-LINE AND EDGE GREEN'S FUNCTIONS FOR STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS OF INCLINED EDGE CRACKS

Abstract— Fretting loads on the surfaces of structural components can cause accelerated growth of short cracks. The rate of growth will depend on the combined stress intensity factor resulting from both remote and local loading. Many stress intensity factor solutions are available for remote loading, but solutions for arbitrary fretting loads are not readily accessible. In this paper accurate crack-line Green's functions are obtained from a boundary element analysis and then used to develop the Green's functions for loads on the edge of a half-plane containing a slant crack at various angles to the edge. These latter Green's functions can be used to obtain stress intensity factors for arbitrary stresses (normal or shear) on the edge of the half-plane without further stress analysis; simple integration procedures are all that is required.