Determination of the Parameters of the Two-Parametric Fracture Mechanics along the Crack Front Based on the Digital Image Correlation Data.

A mathematical processing technique and an algorithm for the numerical correction of experimental displacement fields on the specimen surface in the vicinity of a crack tip with consideration of the displacement of a body as a rigid whole under its loading and the actual position of a crack tip were proposed. The initial experimental displacement fields in the vicinity of a fatigue crack tip of a compact specimen were determined by digital image correlation. This approach was successfully used for a compact specimen and the possibility of its expansion to obtain the distributions of the stress intensity factors and the nonsingular T stresses along the spatial crack front was shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]