| Abstract: | Certain forms of the stress-intensity factors close to the tips of sharp flaws (plane problem) are used as the basis of a method for plotting critical equilibrium diagrams for brittle bodies with flaws in the form of pointed cavity-cracks [5]. Concrete examples are discussed, mainly in the context of such diagrams, for a brittle body weakened by a circular cavity flaw with a crack leaving the edge of the flaw. Determination of the stress-intensity factors for this problem is based on approximate solution of an integral equation by the method of collocations. Plots of some familiar diagrams are also analyzed.Translated from Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 98–104, May–June, 1970. |
