A center-cracked plate loaded in mode I has a stress intensity factor that controls the stress state near the crack tip. The stress intensity factor depends on the applied load, crack length, and plate geometry. For an infinitely large plate, the stress intensity factor is equal to the square root of the applied stress multiplied by pi times the crack length.
A center-cracked plate loaded in mode I has a stress intensity factor that controls the stress state near the crack tip. The stress intensity factor depends on the applied load, crack length, and plate geometry. For an infinitely large plate, the stress intensity factor is equal to the square root of the applied stress multiplied by pi times the crack length.
A center-cracked plate loaded in mode I has a stress intensity factor that controls the stress state near the crack tip. The stress intensity factor depends on the applied load, crack length, and plate geometry. For an infinitely large plate, the stress intensity factor is equal to the square root of the applied stress multiplied by pi times the crack length.
A center-cracked plate loaded in mode I has a stress intensity factor that controls the stress state near the crack tip. The stress intensity factor depends on the applied load, crack length, and plate geometry. For an infinitely large plate, the stress intensity factor is equal to the square root of the applied stress multiplied by pi times the crack length.
Stress intensity factor for a center-cracked plate
Stress intensity factor controles the stress state near the tip of a crack caused by a remote load. For a center-cracked plate loaded in mode I, Figure 4.8, the value of the stress intensity factor is dependent from the load applied (), the crack length (2a)and from plate geometry (Y ). This value is obtained by the following expression, [18]:
KI = Y a
(4.1)
When the plate has infinite dimensions, [18] Y = 1 and eq. 4.1 becomes