Three dimensional dynamic stress intensity factors are analyzed for a curved crack with a second order perturbation method. The method is extended to obtain an approximate representation of a three dimensional dynamic stress intensity factors at the tip of a curved crack. Due to three dimensional curved crack growth the dynamic energy release rate can be calculated by using the Irwin＇s formula. A three dimensional curved crack in materials with inhomogeneous fracture toughness are considered. Paths of a brittle three dimensional curved crack propagating along a welded joint are predicted via the present method, where the effects of dynamic applied stresses, residual stresses, and material deterioration due to welding are taken into considerations.
In this article, elastic-plastic curved crack tip opening displacement maximum in hardened material under dynamic loads has been studied, and curved crack tip opening displacement has been calculated as a practical application of a second order perturbation method and theorem of surname KA, where the effects of dynamic applied stresses and dynamic normal and shear stresses on the boundaries of plastic area are synthetically taken into considerations. Diagrams have been constructed to analyz the transformation relationships between the curved crack tip opening displacement and the work hardening exponents. Curved crack tip opening displacement will decrease with the increasing of hardening exponents in hardened material. The decrease extent of curved crack tip dynamic opening displacement will be more and more severe when hardening exponents increase evenly. Maximum dynamic opening displacement of curved crack tip will decrease when external load decrease with the same hardening exponents
