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Sharp separation between the mother and wash solutions is required O The cake tends to crack smoothing avoids the wash liquid, air or gas purge from by- passing. 

After scratching, 26 s.w.g. (or thicker) Nichrome wire is wrapped once round the scratch, which is wetted. The wire is heated to redness electrically, and kept taut round the glass—for this purpose it is convenient to have insulated handles on the wire. The tubing may then crack smoothly if not, it may be induced to crack by touching the scratch with wetted asbestos when the wire has been hot for about half a minute. An internally scratched Pyrex tube may not crack until it is put in a flame. 

Tubes up to 10-12 mm in diameter can be cut in this way. When properly notched, a tube breaks easily, forming clean edges without burrs. To cut wider tubes, tie a thick thread wetted with ethonol around the notched spot. Ignite the thread, and the glass at this spot will crack smoothly. 

Chapman, R.K., "A system model for the ultrasonic inspection of smooth planar cracks", J. Nondestruct. Eval., 1990,9, 197-211. 

Chapman R.K., Ultrasonic scatteringjrom smooth flat cracks summary note on an elastodynamic Kirchhoff theory, CEGB Report, North Western Region NDTapplications Centre, NWR/SSD/82/0091/N (July 1982). 

Now we intend to derive nonpenetration conditions for plates and shells with cracks. Let a domain Q, d B with the smooth boundary T coincide with a mid-surface of a shallow shell. Let L, be an unclosed curve in fl perhaps intersecting L (see Fig.1.2). We assume that F, is described by a smooth function X2 = i ixi). Denoting = fl T we obtain the description of the shell (or the plate) with the crack. This means that the crack surface is a cylindrical surface in R, i.e. it can be described as X2 = i ixi), —h < z < h, where xi,X2,z) is the orthogonal coordinate system, and 2h is the thickness of the shell. Let us choose the unit normal vector V = 1, 2) at F,, ... 

Considering the crack, we impose the nonpenetration condition of the inequality type at the crack faces. The nonpenetration condition for the plate-punch system also is the inequality type. It is well known that, in general, solutions of problems having restrictions of inequality type are not smooth. In this section, we establish existence and regularity results related to the problem considered. Namely, the following questions are under consideration ... 

The crack shape is defined by the function -ip. This function is assumed to be fixed. It is noteworthy that the problems of choice of the so-called extreme crack shapes were considered in (Khludnev, 1994 Khludnev, Sokolowski, 1997). We also address this problem in Sections 2.4 and 4.9. The solution regularity for biharmonic variational inequalities was analysed in (Frehse, 1973 Caffarelli et ah, 1979 Schild, 1984). The last paper also contains the results on the solution smoothness in the case of thin obstacles. As for general solution properties for the equilibrium problem of the plates having cracks, one may refer to (Morozov, 1984). Referring to this book, the boundary conditions imposed on crack faces have the equality type. In this case there is no interaction between the crack faces. 

In this case the crack is said to have a zeroth opening. The cracks of a zeroth opening prove to possess a remarkable property which is the main result of the present section. Namely, the solution % is infinitely differentiable in a vicinity of T, dT provided that / is infinitely differentiable. This statement is interpreted as a removable singularity property. In what follows this assertion is proved. Let x G T dT and w > (f in O(x ), where O(x ) is a neighbourhood of x. For convenience, the boundary of the domain O(x ) ia assumed to be smooth. 

Let a plate occupy a bounded domain fl c with smooth boundary F. Inside fl there is a graph Fc of a sufficiently smooth function. The graph Fc corresponds to the crack in the plate (see Section 1.1.7). A unit vector n = being normal to Fc defines the surfaces of the crack. 

We consider an equilibrium problem for a shell with a crack. The faces of the crack are assumed to satisfy a nonpenetration condition, which is an inequality imposed on the horizontal shell displacements. The properties of the solution are analysed - in particular, the smoothness of the stress field in the vicinity of the crack. The character of the contact between the crack faces is described in terms of a suitable nonnegative measure. The stability of the solution is investigated for small perturbations to the crack geometry. The results presented were obtained in (Khludnev, 1996b). 

The structure of the section is as follows. In Section 2.8.2 we give necessary definitions and construct a Borel measure n which describes the work of the interaction forces, i.e. for a set A c F dr, the value /a(A) characterizes the forces at the set A. The next step is a proof of smoothness of the solution provided the exterior data are regular. In particular, we prove that horizontal displacements W belong to in a neighbourhood of the crack faces. Consequently, the components of the strain and stress tensors belong to the space In this case the measure n is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. This confirms the existence of a locally integrable function q called a density of the measure n such that... 

The nonpenetration condition considered in this section leads to new effects such as the appearance of interaction forces between crack faces. It is of interest to establish the highest regularity of the solution up to the crack faces and thus to analyse the smoothness of the interaction forces. The regularity of the solution stated in this section entails the components of the strain and stress tensors to belong to in the vicinity of the crack and the interaction forces to belong to T. If the crack shape is not regular, i.e. 0 1), the interaction forces can be characterized by the nonnegative... 

A thin isotropic homogeneous plate is assumed to occupy a bounded domain C with the smooth boundary T. The crack Tc inside 0 is described by a sufficiently smooth function. The chosen direction of the normal n = to Tc defines positive T+ and negative T crack faces. 

The next theorem provides an additional smoothness of the solution as compared to Theorem 3.4 provided that there is no a contact between two plates in a neighbourhood of a fixed point of the crack. 

It is noteworthy that the original equilibrium problem for a plate with a crack can be stated twofold. On the one hand, it may be formulated as variational inequality (3.98). In this case all the above-derived boundary conditions are formal consequences of such a statement under the supposition of sufficient smoothness of a solution. On the other hand, the problem may be formulated as equations (3.92)-(3.94) given initial and boundary conditions (3.95)-(3.97) and (3.118)-(3.122). Furthermore, if we assume that a solution is sufficiently smooth then from (3.92)-(3.97) and (3.118)-(3.122) we can derive variational inequality (3.98). 

Let C be a bounded domain with the smooth boundary L, which has an inside smooth curve Lc without self-intersections. We denote flc = fl Tc. Let n = (ni,ri2) be a unit normal vector at L, and n = ( 1,1 2) be a unit normal vector at Lc, which defines a positive and a negative surface of the crack. We assume that there exists a closed continuation S of Lc dividing fl into two domains the domain fl with the outside normal n at S, and the domain 12+ with the outside normal —n at S (see Section 1.4). By doing so, for a smooth function w in flc, we define the traces of w at boundaries 912+ and, in particular, the traces w+ and the jump [w] = w+ — w at Lc. Let us consider the bilinear form... 

We prove the existence of solutions for the three-dimensional elastoplastic problem with Hencky s law and Neumann boundary conditions by elliptic regularization and the penalty method, both for the case of a smooth boundary and of an interior two-dimensional crack (see Brokate, Khludnev, 1998). It is shown in particular that the variational solution satisfies all boundary conditions. 

In this section the existence of a solution to the three-dimensional elastoplastic problem with the Prandtl-Reuss constitutive law and the Neumann boundary conditions is obtained. The proof is based on a suitable combination of the parabolic regularization of equations and the penalty method for the elastoplastic yield condition. The method is applied in the case of the domain with a smooth boundary as well as in the case of an interior two-dimensional crack. It is shown that the weak solutions to the elastoplastic problem satisfying the variational inequality meet all boundary conditions. The results of this section can be found in (Khludnev, Sokolowski, 1998a). 

We prove an existence of solutions for the Prandtl-Reuss model of elastoplastic plates with cracks. The proof is based on a special combination of a parabolic regularization and the penalty method. With the appropriate a priori estimates, uniform with respect to the regularization and penalty parameters, a passage to the limit along the parameters is fulfilled. Both the smooth and nonsmooth domains are considered in the present section. The results obtained provide a fulfilment of all original boundary conditions. 

The fracture surfaces, revealed when the tube is broken open, are found to be smooth with a rippled appearance characteristic of fatigue. This type of behavior is sometimes known as leak before break. On the other hand, if the material lacks toughness, the propagation of the fatigue crack may be intermpted part way through the wall by the intervention of fast fracture, resulting in what is sometimes known as the break before leak mode of failure. 

Discontinuities intensify stresses. Since susceptibility to SCC commonly increases as stress level increases, stress-corrosion cracks may occur at a discontinuity, whereas smooth areas remain intact. 

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