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2. The asymptotic study of fatigue crack growth based on continuum damage mechanics Consider a fatigue growing crack lying on the x-axis with the coordinate origin located at the moving crack tip

3. The asymptotic study of fatigue crack growth based on continuum damage mechanics The essence of continuum damage mechanics is characterized by material deterioration coupled constitutive equations. Under the assumption of linear elasticity a stiffness reduction based stress- strain relationship is applied as The kinetic law of damage evolution The equilibrium equations

4. The asymptotic study of fatigue crack growth based on continuum damage mechanics The compatibility equation The constitutive equations The constitutive equations for plane stress conditions The constitutive equations for plane strain conditions

5. The asymptotic study of fatigue crack growth based on continuum damage mechanics The traditional traction free conditions on crack surfaces The Airy stress function The Airy stress function can be presented in the form The Mode I stress field components at the crack tip behave as follows

6. The asymptotic study of fatigue crack growth based on continuum damage mechanics The damage field around the crack tip can be presented as The strain components are given as From the compatibility equation one can obtain (for plane stress) one can obtain (for plane strain)

7. The asymptotic study of fatigue crack growth based on continuum damage mechanics The damage evolution law allows to obtain The symmetry of the stress and damage fields around the crack tip The normalizing condition is chosen as The regularity requirement The traction free conditions

8. The asymptotic study of fatigue crack growth based on continuum damage mechanics The totally damaged zone needs to be modeled in the vicinity of the crack tip The analytical result The stress and damage fields around the crack tip

9. The asymptotic study of fatigue crack growth based on continuum damage mechanics

10. The analytical presentation of stress, strain and continuity fields both for plane strain and plane stress conditions is given. The results obtained differ from Zhao and Zhang's solution where the original formulation of the problem for plane stress conditions has been proposed. An analytical solution of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem arising from the fatigue crack growth problem in a damaged medium in coupled formulation is obtained. The perturbation technique is used. The method allows to find the analytical formula expressing the eigenvalue as the function of parameters of the damage evolution law.