A statically admissible solution for a perfectly plastic material in plane stress is presented for the mode I crack problem. The yield condition employed is an alternative type first proposed by von Mises in order to approximate his original yield condition for plane stress while eliminating most of the elliptic region as pertaining to partial differential equations. This yield condition is composed of two intersecting parabolas rather than a single ellipse in the principal stress space. The attributes of this particular solution of the mode I problem over that previously obtained are that it contains neither stress discontinuities nor compressive stresses anywhere in the field.

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
elastic deformation, plastic deformation, elastoplasticity, yield stress, surface cracks, partial differential equations
Topics:
Fracture (Materials), Partial differential equations, Stress, Deformation, Compressive stress, Elastoplasticity, Plastics, Surface cracks, Yield stress
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