In this paper, the load-carrying capacity of an infinite elastic-perfectly plastic plate
containing five collinear straight cracks with coalesced yield zones was studied using a
modified Dugdale model. Important parts of this study are the coalescence of yield
zones developed at the internal tips of closely located outer pairs of cracks and the
influence of quadratically varying yield stress distribution on the load-bearing
capacity and crack-tip opening displacement. Traditional concepts of Muskhelishvili’s
complex variable method have been used to obtain analytical expressions for complex
potential functions, stress intensity factors (SIFs), yield zone length, and crack-tip
opening displacements (CTODs). Numerical results are obtained and shown
graphically for yield zone length, applied load ratio, and CTODs. A good
agreement of the results is seen with previously published work as limiting
cases.
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