Article
Measurement of crack opening stresses and crack closure stress profiles from heat generation in vibrating cracks
Applied Physics Letters
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-25-2008
DOI
10.1063/1.2976310
Abstract
A method is described to measure crack opening stresses and closure stress profiles of a surface-breaking crack. Vibration is used to generate frictional heat by rubbing crack face asperities. Heat is generated at regions of contacting crack asperities under low, but nonzero, closure stress. Increasing force is applied to incrementally open the crack and measure the locations of crack heating as a function of applied load. Surface crack closure stresses are approximated from the heating locations as the load is varied and the crack opening stress is measured from the load required to fully open the crack and terminate heat generation
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American Institute of Physics
Copyright Date
2008
Language
en
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Citation Information
Jeremy Blake Renshaw, Stephen D. Holland and R. Bruce Thompson. "Measurement of crack opening stresses and crack closure stress profiles from heat generation in vibrating cracks" Applied Physics Letters Vol. 93 Iss. 8 (2008) p. 081914 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stephen_holland/25/
This article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 93, no. 8 (2008): 081914, doi:10.1063/1.2976310.