Notch Stress Intensity Factors Applied to U and V-Shaped Radiused Notches under In-plane Shear Loading

Computations of the stress intensity fac

Computations of the stress intensity factors of double-edge and centre V-notched plates under tension and anti-plane shear by the fractal-like finite element method

✍ Muhammad Treifi; S. Olutunde Oyadiji; Derek K.L. Tsang 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 861 KB

The fractal-like finite element method (FFEM) is extended to compute the stress intensity factors (SIFs) of double-edge-/centre-notched plates subject to out-of-plane shear or tension loading conditions. In the FFEM, the use of global interpolation functions reduces the large number of unknowns in a