Fracture analysis of a functionally graded coating-substrate structure with a crack perpendicular to the interface - Part II: Transient problem.

In Part I of this paper, the static problem of a functionally graded coating-substrate system with an internal or edge crack perpendicular to the interface has been studied. In this part, the transient response of the structure is considered under an in-plane impact. Laplace and Fourier transforms are applied to reduce the mixed boundary value problem to a singular integral equation which is solved in the Laplace domain numerically. The dynamic stress intensity factors (DSIFs) are obtained by numerical Laplace inversion technique. The influences of material constants and geometry parameters on the dynamic stress intensity factors are studied. It is found that the DSIFs for an internal crack rise rapidly to a peak and then tend to the steady value without obvious oscillations, but the DSIFs for an edge crack have more obvious oscillations after rising to a peak with the increasing of the nonhomogeneity constant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]