The centrally cracked Brazilian disc: implications and solutions in case of closing cracks

A recently presented closed-form analytic solution for the displacement field and stress field in a cracked Brazilian disc, under uniform radial pressure along two symmetric arcs of its periphery, revealed that for a wide range of crack-axis inclinations, the lips of the crack tend to overlap each o...

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Main Authors: Markides Christos F., Pazis Dimitrios N., Kourkoulis Stavros K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2014-08-01
Series:Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jmbm-2014-0008