Analysis of dynamic contact of cracks in viscoelastic media (Q1913236)

A novel single-step method is proposed for the analysis of dynamic response of contactable crack in viscoelastic media. In the method, a two-level algorithm is employed for dealing with a nonlinear boundary condition caused by the dynamic contact of crack surfaces. At the first level, an explicit method is adopted to calculate nodal displacements of the global viscoelastic system without considering the effect of dynamic contact of cracks, and at the second level, by introducing the contact condition for crack surfaces, a group of equations of smaller order is derived to calculate dynamic contact forces on the crack surfaces. Numerical results are obtained for the impact of a thick plate with an infinite crack.