On the Tension of an Infinite Plate Containing an Infinite Row of Elliptic Holes

Abstract

Utilizing the physical meaning of interference of notch effects in two-dimensional elasticity, the author developed a method of calculating the stress in a plate due to the effect of interference of many notches. By this method, the stress concentration factors of an infinite plate containing an infinite row of elliptic holes subjected to tensile load were calculated. When the ellipses degenerate to circular holes, the stress concentration factors obtained by author's method are in close agreement with the exact values obtained by Howland and Isida.