In this paper, stress-intensity factor solutions are presented for an embedded elliptical crack in a round bar subjected to tensile load. The factors (SIF) tabulated form and were obtained from three-dimensional finite-element analyses of configuration. provide the as function three dimensionless parameters representative size, aspect ratio flaw its relative position cross section. cover ranges...

This paper (Part II), which is the second in a series of two papers, presents new closed-form solutions for net-section-collapse (NSC) analysis of circumferentially cracked pipes for several idealized crack shapes subjected to combined bending and tension (pressure-induced) loads. They are based on further simpli®cations of generalized NSC equations developed in a parallel study. Analytical sol...

Solutions of stress intensity factors for external and internal unpressurized and pressurized surface cracks in internally pressurized thick-walled reactor pressure vessels are determined directly by a three-dimensional displacement-hybrid finite element method. The finite element method is based on a rigorous modified variational principle of the total potential energy, with arbitrary element ...

A nominally at penny-shaped crack is subjected to a static loading. A perturbation method is developed for calculating the stress-intensity factors, based on an asymptotic analysis of the governing hypersingular boundary integral equation for the crack-opening displacement. Comparisons with known exact solutions for an inclined at elliptical crack and for a crack in the shape of a spherical cap...

The assumption of ellipsoidal flaw geometry has been widely used in calculations of the probability of structural failure conditioned on nondestructive (ND) measurements. Clearly, in most cases the flaw geometry is not ellipsoidal and in the particular case of cracks the actual geometry may deviate significantly from a degenerate ellipsoid (i.e., a planar crack with an elliptical plan-view shap...

This paper presents an overview of our recent enhanced 3D extended finite element toolkit for Abaqus (XFA3D) for fatigue damage assessment of welded aluminum structures under block loading. To alleviate the computational burden associated with the insertion and propagation of arbitrary cracks in the presence of a welding induced residual stress field, a nodal enriched displacement field coupled...