Asymptotic analysis for a crack on interface of damaged materials

An asymptotic analysis for a crack lying on the interface of a damaged plas tic material and a linear elastic material is presented in this paper. The present results show that the stress distributions along the crack tip are quite similar to those with HRR singularity field and the crack faces open obviously. Material constants n, mu and mo are varied to examine their effe cts on the resulting stress distributions and displacement distributions in the damaged plastic region. It is found that the stress components sigma(r r), sigma(theta theta), sigma(r theta) and sigma(e) are slightly affected b y the changes of material constants n, mu and m(0), but the damaged plastic region are greatly disturbed by these material parameters.