Stress Distributions in a Semi-Infinite Plate with a Row of Circular Holes

Reduced dependence on loading parameters in almost conforming contacts

“…Limiting the attention to pinned connection alone, the literature is replete with studies because of the extensive use of pin joints in civil, mechanical and aerospace structures and some design codes also provide useful design guides [1][2][3][4]. The elastic contact problem has also received a lot of attention from elasticians from the early days of Bickley [5] and Knight [6] who suggested simplified sinusoidal forms of pressure distribution, Howland [7], Howland and Stevenson [8] and Theocaris [9] who studied the infinite strip subject to rivet loading, and Mori [10] (the case of a semi-infinite plate). Also, several experimentalists attacked similar problems, initially by photoelastic methods [11][12][13][14][15][16][17] and also involving orthotropic materials [18].…”

Stresses associated with multiple holes whose individual stresses interact

“…Most theoretical stress analyses of multiple-perforated structures are restricted to equal-size cutouts in an infinite geometry. 8–29 The authors are unaware of previous applications of thermoelastic stress analysis (TSA) to multiple neighboring holes. Few experimental stress analyses of loaded members containing multiple cutouts are available and virtually all of them employ photoelasticity.…”