Elastic perfectly-plastic asymptotic mixed mode crack tip fields in plane stress

Elastic perfectly-plastic asymptotic plane stress crack tip fields have been constructed by assembling elastic, constant stress and fan sectors under a complete range of mixed mode I/II states of loading. The angular stress distributions are fully continuous, and do not contain the stress discontinuities which have been a feature of many previously proposed solutions. The analytic solutions are verified by finite element solutions under contained yielding conditions. The structure of the elastic perfectly-plastic fields is compared to the structure of the asymptotic strain hardening fields.