Modeling growth paths of interacting crack pairs in elastic media

The problem of predicting the growth of a system of cracks, each crack influencing the growth of the others, arises in multiple fields. We develop an analytical framework toward this aim, which we apply to the 'En-Passant' family of crack growth problems, in which a pair of initially paral...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ghelichi, Ramin, Kamrin, Kenneth N
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112120
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5154-9787