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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik
MM 42: Topical Session: Fundamentals of Fracture - Continuous Models
MM 42.2: Talk
Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 17:00–17:15, H4
Modeling of planar cracks in 3D elastic media considering the effects of surface elasticity by using FEM - SGBEM coupling — •Binh Thai Nguyen1, Jaroon Rungamornrat1, Teerapong Senjuntichai1, and Anil C. Wijeyewickrema2 — 1Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand — 2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
A computationally efficient and accurate numerical technique having the ability to model isolated planar cracks in three-dimensional linear elastic media considering the effects of surface elasticity is presented. The governing equations are formulated based on the classical theory of linear elasticity for the bulk and Gurtin-Murdoch surface elasticity model for the crack surfaces. The resulting system of equations is then solved numerically by using the FEM-SGBEM coupling procedure. Application of the technique to the stress analysis of nano-crack problems are also presented for some selected cases to study the nano-scale influence and size-dependency behavior.