The Elastic Stress Concentration Factors in Shouldered Shafts

Abstract

This paper, which describes a photoelastic determination of the elastic stress concentration factors associated with shouldered shafts subjected to pure bending, forms the second part of an investigation initiated by the Structures Committee of the Royal Aeronautical Society. A general description of the manufacture of the models, the photoelastic technique employed to evaluate the s.c.f. and the results of the tests on shouldered shafts subjected to torsion have been given in Part I (Ref. 1).