Stress concentration caused by an oblique round hole in a flat plate under uniaxial tension

Abstract

Stress-concentration factors have been determined for oblique holes in flat plates by a method using frozen-stress photoelasticity. The ellipses formed at the intersection of the hole and the plate surfaces had their major axes perpendicular to the direction of application of the load. The maximum stress-concentration factor was found to increase with increasing angle of obliquity with respect to the normal to the plate but the experimental factors were found to be considerably lower than those predicted from a theory of Ellyin et al. Graphs are given which enable maximum stress-concentration factors to be obtained for oblique holes having a ratio of hole diameter to plate width of 0.1. It was found that, for the models tested, elliptical hole data gave a reasonable estimate of the maximum stress-concentration factors based on net area. Removing the feather edge of the hole, by applying various edge radii, did not alter the stress concentration appreciably except in so far as load-carrying area was reduced.