SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1986
STP17388S

Growth Behavior of Surface Cracks in the Circumferential Plane of Solid and Hollow Cylinders

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Experiments were conducted to study the growth behavior of surface fatigue cracks in the circumferential plane of solid and hollow cylinders. In the solid cylinders, the fatigue cracks were found to have a circular arc crack front with specific upper and lower limits to the arc radius. In the hollow cylinders, the fatigue cracks were found to agree accurately with the shape of a transformed semiellipse. A modification to the usual nondimensionalization expression used for surface flaws in flat plates was found to give correct trends for the hollow cylinder problem.

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Forman, RG
NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Shivakumar, V
Lockheed-EMSCO, Houston, TX
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Developed by Committee: E08
Pages: 59–74
DOI: 10.1520/STP17388S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4972-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0472-3