Determination of mode 1 notch stress intensity factor by the photoelastic technique

Murthy, Srinivasa N and Rao, Raghavendra P (1985) Determination of mode 1 notch stress intensity factor by the photoelastic technique. In: Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 21 (3). pp. 557-562.

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Abstract

The structural integrity of any member subjected to a load gets impaired due to the presence of cracks or crack-like defects. The notch severity is one of the several parameters that promotes the brittle fracture. The most severe one is an ideal crack with infinitesimal width and infinitesimal or zero root radius. Though analytical investigations can handle an ideal crack, experimental work, either to validate the analytical conclusions or to impose the bounds, needs to be carried out on models or specimens containing the cracks which are far from the ideal ones. Thus instead of an ideal crack with infinitesimal width the actual model will have a slot or a slit of finite width and instead of a crack ending in zero root radius, the model contains a slot having a finite root radius. Another factor of great significance at the root is the notch angle along which the transition from the slot to the root takes place. This paper is concerned with the photoelastic determination of the notch stress intensity factor in the case of a “crack” subjected to Mode 1 deformation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	The copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2009 03:03
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:39
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/21869

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