Fracture of a Finite Medium with a Circular Internal Crack under Hyperbolic Heat Conduction-Prescribed Crack Face Thermal Flux

Abstract

This paper studies the fracture mechanics of a thermoelastic medium with an internal circular crack subjecting to a prescribed thermal flux. The time varying crack tip thermal stress intensity factor is solved. Solution for the infinite medium under steady heat conduction is given in closed form. Comparisons between the non-Fourier results and the classical Fourier results are made. Numerical results show that the non-Fourier heat model predicts considerable high transient thermal stress intensity factor than the Fourier model. This paper, together with our previous paper entitled fracture of a finite medium with a circular internal crack under hyperbolic heat conduction-prescribed crack face temperature, completes the analysis of a finite medium with a circular internal crack under hyperbolic heat conduction.