Issue 41

F. Berto, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 41 (2017) 464-474; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.41.58 468 It is important to underline that the property of K   to converge to the stress intensity factor of the pointed V-notch, K 2 , when the notch root radius tends to zero, is a characteristic of the set of equations provided in Ref. [21] for V-notches with root hole. Other sets of equations [32, 33] applicable to rounded V-notches of different shape do not have this property as discussed in Ref. [34]. In that paper it was also documented the stable trend of the generalized notch stress intensity factors given in Eqs (4) and (8) as a function of the distance r . The problem of the oscillating trend of K    and K    described in [33] for blunt V-notches with flanks tangent to the notch root radius is overcome by employing the set of equations reported in [21]. Fictitious notch rounding is considered for V-notches with root hole subjected to mode 1 and mode 2 loading based on Eqs. (2.1) and (5.1). Based on the MTS criterion, the crack propagation angle  0 is obtained from the following condition d   /d  = 0 (8) The hoop stress field   depends on the position variables r and  in such a way the condition d   /d  = 0 does not determine the angle of crack propagation unless a value of r is specified. The angle  0 increases by increasing the distance r due to the higher contribution of Mode 2 with respect to Mode 1 loading at greater distances from the notch tip. In this paper the values of  =0 (worst case configuration) and r =0.005 mm (early crack propagation) have been set to evaluate the crack initiation angle  0 . It will be shown in the following that the specific value of r allows us to match the values of s obtained for pure mode 1 [20] and pure mode 2 [27]. The normal stress criterion is now introduced for the averaged stress and the MTS criterion for the crack propagation angle  0 . Based on Eqs. (2.1) and (5.1) the maximum theoretical notch stress  th (r,  0 ) is obtained and the averaged stress in the direction of  0 is determined:   * 0 1 σ σ , dr ρ * th r        (9) The determinate integral in Eq. (9) has first been solved in its indeterminate form separated into mode 1 and mode 2 components (termed ii1 and ii2), and only then in its determinate form (termed di1 and di2). The determinate integrals referring to mode 1 and mode 2, respectively, result in the following form: 0 0 0 1( , *, ) 1( *, ) 1( , ) di ii ii            (10) 0 0 0 2( , *, ) 2( *, ) 2( , ) di ii ii            (11) For the sake of brevity of presentation and due to the length of the final expressions, the explicit forms of di1 and di2 are omitted here. The limit value of the average stress for  *  0 (and    f ) is:       11 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 12 0 11 0 11 0 * 0 0 1 1 4 cos 1 cos 1 (1 ( ) ( ) ( )) lim 1( , *, ) 2 (1 ) f f K di                                                (12)       12 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 22 0 22 0 21 0 * 0 0 2 2 4 sin 1 sin 1 (1 ( ) ( ) ( )) lim 2( , *, ) 2 ( 1) f f K di                                                 (13) The equation * 0 ( , *) lim ( )        , according to the procedure given by Neuber [1,3], results in the following equation with di1       0 ) and di2       0 ) according to Eqs. (10-11): 