The behaviour of cracks under a mixed mode loading - a literature survey (IM-STM-002)

In practice, many defects are subjected not to pure Mode I loading, as is customary in materials testing, but to a combination of Mode I, II 4 III loadings (Fig.1) either simultaneously or sequentially. Examples are circumferential defects in shafts subjected to both bending and torsion, and rail head defects...