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The effects of a transient thermal load on a cracked plate are studied experimentally using photothermoelasticity. The three crack configurations of an edge crack, an interior vertical crack and an interior crack inclined at 45 deg are analyzed. In each case, the initially heated plates are subjected to cooling along the edge, while the faces of the plate are either completely insulated, or noninsulated, or in a third case, they are covered with heated transparent Plexiglas plates. It is shown that among the three cracks, the largest transient maximum stress-intensity factor occurs for the edge crack. The inclined crack is subjected to a mixed-mode loading. Among the three cooling conditions, the most severe is the insulated faces case while the noninsulated is the least severe. The relative effect of the cooling conditions on the stress-intensity factors for the three crack types is different enough that the results with one cooling condition would not represent those of another one. A comparison of the experimental transient stress-intensity factors for the vertical crack cases to the finite-element results shows good agreement.
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Kokini, K., Long, M.A. Transient thermal fracture of cracked plates. Experimental Mechanics 28, 373–381 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02325179
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