Stress Analysis of Cracked Plate for Selected Configurations: A Review

In this paper an effort is made to review on the Stress Analysis of cracked plate for the determination of stress intensity factor near the crack tip.Cracks in plates with different configurations often occurs in both modern and classical aerospace, mechanical and civil engineering structure. The understanding of effect of loading mode and crack configuration on load bearing capacity of such plate is very important in designing of structure and in damage tolerance analysis. A number of Analytical, Numerical, experimental technique are available for stress analysis to determine the stress intensity factor near crack tip under different loading modes in an infinite /finite cracked plate made up of different material 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 intensity factor.