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dc.contributor.supervisorChristopher, Colin
dc.contributor.authorALOUSTA, EBTESAM
dc.contributor.otherSchool of Engineering, Computing and Mathematicsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-06T09:25:37Z
dc.date.available2019-03-06T09:25:37Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier10395870en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/13437
dc.description.abstract

The phenomenon of closure is one of the most important phenomena that have been linked to the deeper understanding of fatigue cracks. Various methods have been employed to model the plastic zone around the crack tip which appears to give rise to the closure phenomena. In this thesis, our goal is to model the plastic region near the crack tip by using a suitable adaptation of an Eshelby inclusion. To do this, the first task is to translate Eshelby’s solution in terms of Muskhelishvili’s complex potential functions for 2D elasticity and then solve these equations for a suitable shape of plastic inclusion. In this thesis, we have concentrated only on the case where the inclusion is a disc in front of the crack just touching the crack tip.

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dc.description.sponsorshipLibyan Governmenten_US
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Plymouth
dc.subjectmodel the plastic region near the crack tip by using a suitable adaptation of an Eshelby inclusionen_US
dc.subject.classificationPhDen_US
dc.titleModelling of Fatigue Crack Closure via the Concept of Plastic Inclusionsen_US
dc.typeThesis
plymouth.versionpublishableen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.24382/1023
dc.rights.embargoperiodNo embargoen_US
dc.type.qualificationDoctorateen_US
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