Stress Analysis of Finite Plate with Special Shaped Cutout

Satish D. Watsar, Prof. Ajay Bharule

Abstract: Plates with various shaped cutout are often used in both modern and classical aerospace mechanical and civil engineering structure. The understanding of the effect of load bearing capacity and stress concentration of such plate is very important in designing of structure. The main objective of this paper is for stress analysis of finite plate with special shaped cut out for stress distribution and Stress Concentration Factor (SCF). An Experimental investigation is taken to study the stress analysis of plate with special shaped cut out. The results based on Experimental analysis are compared with result obtained using finite element analysis (FEA).

Keywords: Stress concentration factor, Finite plate, special shaped cutout, Photoelasticity