Effects of material gradients on transient dynamic mode-III stress intensity factors in a FGM

This paper presents a transient dynamic crack analysis for a functionally graded material (FGM) by using a hypersingular timedomain boundary integral equation method. The spatial variations of the material parameters of the FGM are described by an exponential law. A numerical solution procedure is developed for solving the hypersingular time-domain traction BIE. To avoid the use of time-dependent Green’s functions which are not available for general FGM, a convolution quadrature formula is adopted for approximating the temporal convolution, while a Galerkin method is applied for the spatial discretization of the hypersingular time-domain traction BIE. Numerical results for the transient dynamic stress intensity factors for a finite crack in an infinite and linear elastic FGM subjected to an impact anti-plane crack-face loading are presented and discussed. The effects of the material gradients of the FGM on the transient dynamic stress intensity factors and their dynamic overshoot over the corresponding static stress intensity factors are analyzed.