Problems on effective crack length

Dugdale Approach
1. A large plate of 5mm thickness, made of maraging steel (

ys=1770 MPa

) with a through the

thickness centre crack of 2a = 40mm length, is subjected to a stress of 600MPa. For Mode 1
loading, determine the effective crack length using Dugdale Approach.
Given data :
Plate thickness B = 5mm, yield stress

ys=1770 MPa

, applied stress

app =600 MPa

Centre crack length 2a = 40mm ; a = 20mm

We assuming that plate is loaded in plane stress,
KI = app a f ( )
= 600

f ( )=1, since the plate is large

0.02

KI = 150.39 MPa

By Dugdale approach,
2

KI
Plastic zone size = 8 2
ys

(150.39)
8 17702

= 2.835 mm
since is not negligible in comparison to plate thickness, our assumption of plane stress
condition is justified.
Effective crack length aeff = a +
= 20 + 2.835
= 22.835 mm

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