Abstract:
In the paper asymptotic solution to the problem of growth of fatigue crack in conditions of repeated loading in a damaged medium in the coupled elasticity-damage statement of the problem is given. Asymptotic expansions of stress fields and continuity fields in which two summands are retained in asymptotic representation are derived. The problems of determination of amplitude coefficients of obtained asymptotic expansions are discussed.
Keywords:damaging, fatigue crack growth, fatigue damage, coupled formulation of the problem, damage accumulation near the crack tip, eigenfunction expansion method.