Stress Intensity Factor for a Crack Emanating From a Shaft

• Main Author: Khoo, Sze Wei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2009
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/746/1/Khoo_Sze_Wei_8719.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/746/

Shaft is a rotational body used to transmit power or motion. Due to cyclic loading conditions, i.e. axial, bending and torsional load, surface cracks frequently grow in the shaft. Normally these cracks will propagate with a semi-circular shape and cause damage or premature failure to the whole syste...