Estimation of Mixed-Mode Stress Intensity Factors with Presence of the Confinement Parameters T-Stress and A3

Abstract

A failure criterion is proposed for ductile fracture in U-notched components under mixed mode static loading. The Compact Tension Shear (CTS) is the preferred test specimen used to determine stress intensity factor in the mode I, mode II and the mixed-mode fracture. In this work, the mode I and mode II stress intensity factors were computed for different notch ratio lengths 0.1<a/W<0.7, of the inner radius of notch 0.25mm<ρ<4mm and load orientation angles 0°<α< 90° using finite element analysis. However, a review of numerical analysis results reveals that the conventional fracture criteria with only stress intensity factors (NSIFs) Kρ first term of Williams’s solution provide different description of stress field around notch zone comparing with results introduce the second and third parameter T-stress and A3.