A magnetically impermeable and electrically permeable interface crack with a contact zone in a magnetoelectroelastic bimaterial under concentrated magnetoelectromechanical loads on the crack faces

Abstract

An interface crack with a frictionless contact zone at the right crack-tip between two dissimilar magnetoelectroelastic materials under the action of concentrated magnetoelectromechanical loads on the crack faces is considered. The open part of the crack is assumed to be magnetically impermeable and electrically permeable. The Dirichlet-Riemann boundary value problem is formulated and solved analytically. Stress, magnetic induction and electrical displacement intensity factors as well as energy release rate are thus found in analytical forms. Analytical expressions for the contact zone length have been derived. Some numerical results are presented and compared with those based on the other crack surface conditions. It is shown clearly that the location and magnitude of the applied loads could significantly affect the contact zone length, the stress intensity factor and the energy release rate.