STRESS-ANALYSIS OF ANISOTROPIC ELASTIC V-NOTCHED BODIES

A method to determine singular stress fields near a V-notch in an anis otropic plate is presented. The method is based on a new boundary elem ent formulation recently proposed by Wu et al. [J. Appl. Mech. 59, 344 -348 (1992)] coupled with path-independent integrals relating the near -tip field to the far field. Numerical examples are given for plates c ontaining a single edge crack, two collinear edge cracks, an internal crack, a single notch, and two symmetric notches under uniform stress. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.