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Stress Distribution Around Edge Slits in a Plate Loaded in Tension —the Effect of Finite Width of Plate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. R. Dixon*
Affiliation:
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, National Engineering Laboratory

Summary

Two-dimensional photoelastic tests have been carried out on uni-axially loaded flat-plate specimens with two collinear edge slits, to investigate the effect of finite plate width on the elastic stress distribution. It was found that the effect of slitlength/ plate-width ratio on the elastic stress concentration at the end of the edge slit of length l was virtually the same as that for a central slit of length 2l in a plate of the same width, and could be adequately expressed by existing theories.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1962

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