Stress concentration phenomena in composite laminates are technically important situations. A well-known problem of this class is the free-edge effect in composite laminates or as a superordinated example the stress concentrations in the vicinity of free laminate corners (so-called free-corner effect). The present work is split into two parts. In the present contribution, after a short introduction to the given stress concentration problems in general we will survey relevant selected literature on the classical free-edge effect dating from 1967 until today. Beside accentuation on approximate closed-form analytic methods for the stress analysis in the free-edge effect situation, numerous references on numerical methods and investigations on the occurring stress singularities are also cited. In a subsequent paper we will present a simple closed-form method for the analysis of the stress fields in the vicinity of free laminate corners with arbitrary layup. The method is based on adequate stress shape assumptions and a variational principle. The present article contains 136 references.
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