LI Yi-fan, DONG Shi-ming, HUA Wen. T-stress for central cracked Brazilian disk subjected to compression[J]. 2016, 37(11): 3191-3196.DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2016.11.019.
In order to investigate the analytical calculation method of T-stress for the central cracked Brazilian disk (CCBD) subjected to the compression
a weight function method is used to derive the explicit expressions of the T-stress for CCBD under concentrated loading and the distributed force loading. Compared with the boundary coordination method
the advantage of the explicit expression is that the T-stress for arbitrary relative crack length and any loading angle can be obtained explicitly and easily. Further analysing results show that the deviation of the T-stress under the distributed force and the concentrated force increases with increasing load distributed angle. At a fixed relative crack length
the T-stress increases with the increasing of loading angle under concentrated force. In most cases
T- stress is negative when the central cracked Brazilian disk is under pure mode I and pure mode II fracture tests. The value of T-stress for CCBD affects the fracture toughness testing
and it is difficult for CCBD to eliminate the influence by reducing the T-stress to zero.