eprintid: 3216 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 69 dir: disk0/00/00/32/16 datestamp: 2016-03-11 12:24:43 lastmod: 2016-03-11 12:24:43 status_changed: 2016-03-11 12:24:43 type: monograph metadata_visibility: no_search creators_name: Morini, Lorenzo creators_name: Piccolroaz, Amdrea creators_name: Mishuris, G. creators_id: lorenzo.morini@imtlucca.it creators_id: creators_id: title: Remarks on the energy release rate for an antiplane moving crack in couple stress elasticity ispublished: submitted subjects: T1 subjects: TA divisions: CSA full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper abstract: This paper is concerned with the steady-state propagation of an antiplane semi-infinite crack in couple stress elastic materials. A distributed loading applied at the crack faces and moving with the same velocity of the crack tip is considered, and the influence of the loading profile variations and microstructural effects on the dynamic energy release rate is investigated. The behaviour of both energy release rate and maximum total shear stress when the crack tip speed approaches the critical speed (either that of the shear waves or that of the localised surface waves) is studied. The limit case corresponding to vanishing characteristic scale lengths is addressed both numerically and analytically by means of a comparison with classical elasticity results. date: 2013 date_type: published number: 37 publisher: arXiv institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca official_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5329 citation: Morini, Lorenzo and Piccolroaz, Amdrea and Mishuris, G. Remarks on the energy release rate for an antiplane moving crack in couple stress elasticity. Working Paper #37/2013 arXiv (Submitted) document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3216/1/1311.5329v2.pdf