Linear elastic fracture mechanics and its application on study of composed materials

The main objective of this bachelor thesis is the introduction to computational methods of fracture parameters of the crack, which terminates at the bi-material interface. The preface of the work deals with composites, where possible crack can grow in materials with different elastic properties. In this part advantages of composite materials are closely described and usual structure arrangements of the components are presented. The next part of this work is focused on the linear elastic fracture mechanics and available concepts for assessment of the body with presence of the crack in the homogenous material are described. These concepts are based on analytical expressions and, also, on numerical methods. This problem is furthermore extended in the next chapter by case, when the crack terminates perpendicularly to the bi-material interface. Here are given procedures, which can provide information about the further crack behaviour. In practical part all presented procedures have been used in order to evaluate the crack parameters in the homogenous material and for the crack terminating at bi-material interface. Necessary calculations were performed using the finite element method implemented in the commercial system ANSYS. Calculated results were compared and closely discussed in the conclusion