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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Manchester : B - Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering
Computations of Modes I and II Stress Intensity Factors of Sharp Notched Plates under In-Plane Shear and Bending Loading by the Fractal-Like Finite Element Method
M Treifi is a PhD student and KL Tsang was a PDRA on an EPSRC project who carried out pioneering fractal-like finite element method (FFEM) work at Manchester. Over the past two decades, the FFEM has been developed by researchers in Hong Kong and Manchester as an accurate and efficient method to compute stress intensity factors (SIFs) of different crack problems. This paper is a new development of the FFEM to analyse singularity problems associated with sharp notches. SIF values for single off-centre edge-notched plates under in-plane shear and bending loading conditions, which were unavailable in the literature, are presented.
