The most dangerous flaw orientation in brittle materials and structures
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In the present paper a sheet of material is considered. It is loaded by uniaxial tensile stress and contains a random distribution of flaw orientations, with the flaws thought of as flat pre-cracks of comparable length, and with all crack planes being oriented perpendicular to the faces of the sheet. Intuition suggests that the most likely flaw to initiate fracture, which will be termed the “most dangerous defect”, lies orthogonally to the major load axis. The purpose of the present paper is to show that such an assumption is incorrect. Neither the most dangerous defect nor the first increments of crack growth will be oriented perpendicularly to the stress direction (nor will they be co-planar with the orientation of the most critical flaw).
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