2006 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages 36-42
In previous studies, the elastic stress field near the crack tip was investigated by digital image correlation and the 2-D intelligent hybrid method. In this study, the 2-D nonlinear hybrid method was developed to analyze the elastic-plastic singular stress field near the crack tip from the displacement data obtained by digital image correlation. Then, the 2-D nonlinear hybrid method was carried out to evaluate a stress, strain and the J integral. The 3-D elastic-plastic finite element method was conducted on the same specimen as the experiment, and the validity of this approach was discussed from the comparison of the experiment and 3-D finite element method.
