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Consider the Westergaard stress function
Find the loading that represents in an infinite plate with a crack of length 2a along the x-axis and determine the stress intensity factor.
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E.E. Gdoutos (1993) Fracture Mechanics - An Introduction, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.
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Gdoutos, E.E. (2003). Westergaard Method for a Crack Problem. In: Gdoutos, E.E., Rodopoulos, C.A., Yates, J.R. (eds) Problems of Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2774-7_8
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