A higher order asymptotic analysis of the transient deformation field surrounding the tip of a crack running dynamically along a bimaterial interface is presented. An asymptotic methodology is used to reduce the problem to one of the Riemann-Hilbert type. Its solution furnishes displacement potentials which are used to explicitly evaluate the near-tip transient stress field. Crack-tip fields corresponding to crack speeds up to the lower of the two shear wave ...
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