A mode III arc-shaped crack with surface elasticity

Abstract

We study the effect of surface elasticity on an arc-shaped crack in a linearly elastic isotropic homogeneous material under antiplane shear deformation. The surface mechanics is incorporated by using a continuum-based surface/interface model of Gurtin and Murdoch. We obtain a complete solution by reducing the problem to two decoupled first-order Cauchy-type singular integro-differential equations. It is shown that different from the case of a straight crack, the stresses exhibit both the weak logarithmic and the strong square root singularities at the tips of the arc crack.