title: Interface crack between different orthotropic media under uniform heat flow.
abstract: In this paper, plane thermo-elastic solutions are presented for the problem of a crack in two bonded homogeneous orthotropic media with a graded interfacial zone. The graded interfacial zone is treated as a nonhomogeneous interlayer having spatially varying thermo-elastic moduli between dissimilar, homogeneous orthotropic half-planes, which is assumed to vary exponentially in the direction perpendicular to the crack surface. Using singular integral equation method, the mixed boundary value conditions with respect to the temperature field and those with respect to the stress field are reduced to a system of singular integral equations and solved numerically. Numerical results are obtained to show the influence of non-homogeneity parameters of the material thermo-elastic properties, the orthotropy parameters and the dimensionless thermal resistance on the temperature distribution and the thermal stress intensity factors.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021 China.
authors.forename: Sheng-Hu
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021 China.
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
keywords: Crack; Functionally graded orthotropic media; Interface zone; Singular integral equation; Stress intensity factors