Elastic perfectly-plastic fields at a rapidly propagating crack-tip (Q1072789)

All the stress components at a rapidly propagating crack-tip in an elastic perfectly-plastic material are the functions of \(\theta\) only. Making use of this condition and the equations of steady-state motion, stress-strain relations and yield conditions, we obtain the general solutions in both the cases of anti-plane and in-plane strain. Applying these two general solutions to propagating Mode III and Mode I cracks, respectively, the elastic perfectly-plastic and the perfectly-plastic fields at the rapidly propagating tips of Mode III and Mode I cracks are derived.