RECTANGULAR TENSILE SHEET WITH EDGE CRACKS,

Abstract

Complex variable methods are applied to the plane elastic problem of a rectangular tensile sheet with edge cracks. A mapping function is used which is sufficiently flexible to account for both variations of crack length and length/width ratios of the sheet on the stresses local to the crack tips. Numerical results are carried out and compared with the approximation derived from Westergaard's solution. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0423444

Entities

People

  • Oscar L. Bowie

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Complex Variables
  • Crack Tips
  • Cracks

Readers

  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.