Solution (Problem 2)


This question should take about 10 minutes to complete. It is an introductory level question.
If the fracture stress of a large sheet of maraging steel , which contains a central crack of length 40 mm, is 480 MPa, calculate the fracture stress of a similar sheet containing a crack of length 100 mm.

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Answer:   304 MPa


This is, again, simple subsitution into the Griffith equation, and we do not need material constants because we have enough information to set up two equations with two unknowns.  We can then eliminate the material constants and solve for the relevant fracture stress. Recalling that fracture stress is given by:

We can substitute in the given information to get:

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