Stress Analysis of Thin Plate with Special Shaped Cutout: A Review

In this paper an effort is made to review on the Stress Analysis of thin plate with special shaped cutout. Plates with variously shaped cutout often used in both modern and classical aerospace, mechanical and civil engineering structure. The understanding of effect of cutout on load bearing capacity and stress concentration of such plate is very important in designing of structure. A number of Analytical, Numerical, experimental technique are available for stress analysis around the different type of cutouts for different condition in an infinite /finite plate made up of different material under different loading condition has been reported in this paper. An attempt has been made in the present work to present an overview of various techniques developed for stress analysis & stress concentration factor.