Complete complex series expansions of near-tip fields for steadily growing interface cracks in dissimilar isotropic materials

Abstract An analytic study of the complete near-tip fields for steadily, yet dynamically, growing interface cracks in dissimilar isotropic bimaterials is reported. Solutions of the crack tip stress and displacement fields are put in the form of complex power series, which are obtained with Radok's complex function formulation for steady plane motion problems, and with a two-term complex eigen-expansion technique.