Three-dimensional effects in interfacial crack propagation

The paper describes the use of crack-opening interferometry for examining the variation in normal crack-opening displacements (NCOD) along the front of an interfacial crack in an edge-cracked bimaterial strip under biaxial loading. For the glass/epoxy combination considered here, the crack front was concave in the direction of crack growth, in contrast to previous observations with a glass/polyurethane/glass sandwich specimen and cracks in homogeneous materials. The NCOD were greatest in the interior of the specimen for all mode-mixes considered and the exponents in a power-law fit of NCOD versus distance from the crack front decreased towards the free surface. The exponents varied with mode-mix, suggesting that interfacial crack-front geometries could be similarly affected.

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