‘ INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AMD TECHNOLOG ‘THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 695 547 Aerospace Engineering, End-Semester - April 2014 % @ AE 474 Fracture Mechanics My Date: 09/05/2014 Max. Marks: 100 Answer all questions Ome load on a 30 mm thick plate with an edge crack of 40 mm length was increased very slowly and the displacement of the load point was monitored. It was observed that at a load of 1000 N and displacement 1mm_, the crack started growing. The rate of crack growth was much faster than the rate at which load increased and therefore the crack was essentially grown at the load of 2100 N. Through an optical recording using a rapid camera it was found that the crack \y%: grew up to 60 mm length with a rapid increase in displacement to Jd . Determine the critical Energy release rate. (11 Marks) (\ - Derive the expression for SIF for (a) Wedge load at the surface of a crack face (b) mm 2 Internal pressure on cracked faces (12 Marks) ‘3, Derive the relation between G, and Kin the case of plane stress. (12 Marks) Sy 4. Consider a test for finding Ki. as described below. The machine notch of an SENB specimen is extended by a fatigue load with Pax = 40 KN and Pas = 5 KN. The dimensions of the specimen are B= 25 mm, W=50 mm, S=100 mm and average ‘ crack length, a= 24.1 mm. Critical load is 80 kN and yield stress is 800 MPa vy Me Check whether the test conducted was valid. (10 Marks) 7s 5. Find the J-integral in the case of a double cantilever beam of width B subjected to a symmetric pair of moments. (12 Marks) ph de B oe gtk Gomm 4s * gio0n” v é QE 40m usdinn (oven: ab as Ps Bz a 3 % b 2 2 du a= da” EK 4 a y to a uniformly distributed load. A particular manufacturer produces bool with shelves that are 1.5 m in length (L), have a width (b) of 200 mm and a > OFm) ‘Big, 281 Keo fee . Bee Toa Pea ios . a (% (2 th a. Ke 5.less (1) of 10 mm. ‘The design load on the shelves is estimated as w = 100 ‘The manufacturer knows that handling of the glass shelves du ation’ may cause surface flaws to be present: in them, which « be we 102 ie a Bh Sy wh. | | de Scans I, a Jensity Factor K (MPavm) considered as ke... with a maximum depth of am. Moist air environment may cause stress corrosion cracking to occur in stressed gla Assume that no incubation period, is required before the crack extends. The maximum bending stress in a simpiy'X& Metrcan subject to a distributed load eM BH given by, ine 1 wi The! shelves are to be made from ie 6 lass with a modulus of elasticity FE = 70 Gpa and Surface ener, Ky/m? \A crack velocity (v-K) Surve (log-log plot) for soda glass in a moist environment is given in the figure. Assume that the log-log plot is lin a whether the glass shelves will last for a guarentee of one year. Als K=1lovxa (18 Marks) ~ a Sdge erack in a large plate is subjected to a constant amplitude fatigue load Wide 150)MPa and Gau= 10 MPa . Calculate the life of the component if & Xs an 0.01 y eT Daa x eeeeemetength fs 24 mm ang Ke= 80 Mpa m C=6x10 ®MPa?m""?, m=3 (10 Marks) Z 5 wer the following (each question carries 3 Marks) ex Namie on¢ methodology used to simulate failure at the nano scale Stale any two toughening mechanisms in composites >) Name two methods for finding SIF by finite element method ( 4/ Draw the shape of the plastic zone Sround the crack tip for plane stress cas Ww is blunting of crack tip taken into €ccount during Jj. testing? deg Wee vara ee a oe ui) eee Sete: pe es