Stress Concentration and Optimized Analysis of an Arbitrarily Shaped Hole with a Graded Layer under Anti-Plane Shear

Abstract

This paper provides a general solution to the anti-plane problem of an arbitrarily shaped hole reinforced with a functionally graded (FG) layer in a homogenous plate. By using the piece-wise homogeneous layers method and the conformal mapping technique, the complex potentials in the form of series in the FG layer are derived based on the theory of complex variable functions. The influence of the FG layer on the shear stress distributions around some typically shaped holes are discussed by numerical examples, and then the optimized analysis of the stress concentration factor (SCF) is performed. The results showed that the SCF of various shaped holes can be noticeably reduced by the optimum design of the material variations in the layer, and the most significant one in this paper is the triangular hole, whose SCF can be decreased by more than 50%.