SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1989
STP18829S

Stress-Intensity Factors for Small Surface and Corner Cracks in Plates

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Three-dimensional finite-element and finite-element-alternating methods were used to obtain the stress-intensity factors for small surface and corner cracked plates subjected to remote tension and bending loads. The crack-depth-to-crack-length ratios (a/c) ranged from 0.2 to 1, the crack-depth-to-plate-thickness ratios (a/t) from 0.05 to 0.2. The performance of the finite-element alternating method was studied on these crack configurations. A study of the computational effort involved in the finite-element-alternating method showed that several crack configurations can be analyzed with a single rectangular mesh idealization, whereas the conventional finite-element method requires a different mesh for each configuration. The stress-intensity factors obtained with the finite-element-alternating method agreed well (within 5%) with those calculated from the finite-element method with singularity elements.

The stress-intensity factors calculated from the empirical equations proposed by Newman and Raju were generally within 5% of those calculated by the finite-element method. The stress-intensity factors given herein should be useful in predicting crack-growth rates and fracture strengths of surface- and corner-cracked components.

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Raju, IS
Analytical Services and Materials, Inc., Hampton, VA
Atluri, SN
Center for the Advancement of Computational Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Newman, JC
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
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Developed by Committee: E08
Pages: 297–316
DOI: 10.1520/STP18829S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5081-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-1250-6