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Westergaard Method for a Crack Under Distributed Forces

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Problems of Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue
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Abstract

Show that the Westergaard function for the configuration of Figure 1 is

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(1)

and the stress intensity factor is

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(2)

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  1. E.E. Gdoutos (1993) Fracture Mechanics - An Introduction, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.

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Gdoutos, E.E. (2003). Westergaard Method for a Crack Under Distributed Forces. In: Gdoutos, E.E., Rodopoulos, C.A., Yates, J.R. (eds) Problems of Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2774-7_6

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