Stress Intensity Factors for Through and Part-Through Cracks Originating at Fastener Holes

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A procedure is formulated to derive approximate stress intensity factors for both part-through and through-the-thickness cracks originating at open holes and holes containing either loaded or unloaded close tolerance fasteners. The procedure is checked with known solutions for stress intensity factors of one or two through-the-thickness cracks emanating from an open hole in a plate subjected to uniaxial or biaxial loading. Stress intensity factors computed from this procedure for the above mentioned cases agree within seven percent of known results for the crack length to hole radius ratios, L/r, of 0.05 ≤ L/r < ∞. The procedure is then used to derive stress intensity factors for through cracks at loaded close tolerance fasteners in a plate, and for semi-elliptical cracks at open holes and at loaded and unloaded close tolerance fastener filled holes in a thick plate. Stress intensity factors for these part-through cracks are presented in graphical forms as a function of position around the crack periphery, for various crack aspect ratios and crack length to hole radius ratios. Finally, these stress intensity solutions for semi-elliptical cracks at a fastener hole in a thick plate are used to estimate stress intensity factors for quarter-elliptical cracks originating at a fastener hole in a finite thickness plate.

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