Analysis of a penny-shaped crack in a magneto-elastic medium

The problem of a crack in a piezomagnetic material under magnetomechanical loading is considered. The exact solution, obtained in this work, includes the unknown a priori normal component of the magnetic induction vector inside the crack. Several different physical assumptions associated with limited magnetic permeability of the crack are utilized to determine those unknown magnetic inductions through the crack boundaries. Analytical formulae for the stress and magnetic induction intensity factors are derived. The effects of magnetic boundary conditions (limited permeability) at the crack surface on the basic parameters of fracture mechanics are analysed and some features of the solution are discussed. If the permeability of the medium inside the crack tends to zero or is very large, extreme results i.e. impermeable or permeable crack solutions are obtained.