The differential scheme and its application to cracked materials

Abstract A Differential Scheme (DS) approximation for elastic properties of cracked materials is established by a limiting process on the basis of the DS for porous materials. The method is applied to obtain stiffness reduction due to randomly oriented elliptical and penny-shaped crack distributions in isotropic matrix, and to the case of aligned plane cracks in orthotropic sheets.

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