Download or read book On Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids with Cracks written by Ch Zhang and published by Computational Mechanics. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begins with both a non-hypersingular time-domain traction boundary integral equation formulation for transient elastodynamic crack analysis and a time-stepping scheme for solving the boundary integral equations. The scheme is applied to analyze three-dimensional rectangular and penny-shaped cracks, and to investigate pulse shape effects on the dynamic stress intensity factor. The corresponding frequency-domain boundary integral equation is given, and time- harmonic wave propagation in randomly cracked solids is treated. The second half of the book deals with the elastodynamic analysis of a periodic array of cracks in plane strain and of anti-plane interface cracks between two different materials, and the effect of the material anistrophy on the near-tip quantities, the scattered far-field, and wave attenuation and dispersion. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR