Fracture and Fatigue Emanating from Stress Concentrators

• Main Author: Pluvinage, G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mechanics.; Structural mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Engineering design.; Civil engineering.; Mechanical Engineering.; Structural Mechanics.; Civil Engineering.; Engineering Design.

A vast majority of failures emanate from stress concentrators such as geometrical discontinuities. The role of stress concentration was first highlighted by Inglis (1912) who gives a stress concentration factor for an elliptical defect, and later by Neuber (1936). With the progress in computing, it...