An infinite plate weakened by doubly distributing cracks is studied in this paper. Two loading cases, the remote tension and the remote shear stresses, are assumed. Analysis is performed for a cracked cell cut from the infinite plate. It is found that the eigenfunction expansion variational method is efficient to solve the problem. The stress intensity factor, the T-stress, and the elastic response are evaluated. The cracked plate can be equivalent to an orthotropic medium without cracks. The equivalent elastic constants are presented.

Issue Section:
Brief Notes
Keywords:
damping, resonance, ageing, Bessel functions, crack-edge stress field analysis, elasticity, elastic constants, stress analysis
Topics:
Fracture (Materials), Stress, Elastic constants
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