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Photoelastic determination of stress intensity factors for single and interacting cracks and comparison with calculated results. Part I: Two-dimensional problems
Various methods for the determination of stress intensity factors from photoelastic data obtained from models containing narrow slits, are compared by reference to the case of a wide plate with a central crack. The linear slope method is applied to a number of two-dimensional problems when cracks interact with free surfaces or with other cracks.
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