Elastic stresses in bodies with elliptic, parabolic, and tunnel cracks.

The paper gives explicit expressions of the elastic T-stress components T _I, T _II, and T _III for an elliptic crack in an unbounded body under uniform pressure and bending and expressions of all the T-stress components for parabolic and tunnel cracks under uniform loading. These formulas are derived by analyzing the asymptotic behavior of the stress components near the crack front using special harmonic functions. The dependence of the T-stresses on Poisson’s ratio, semiaxes and parametric angle of the elliptic crack is studied. The expressions of T _I, T _II, and T _III for a penny-shaped crack under arbitrary uniform pressure and bending follow as a special case from the respective expressions for an elliptic crack [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]