Mode Stresses for the Interaction between an Inclined Crack and a Curved Crack in Plane Elasticity

Table 1

The SIF for single curved crack: a comparison between exact and numerical results.

		(exact)		(exact)
15	0.9980	0.9989	0.0174	0.0174
30	0.9956	0.9967	0.0466	0.0465
45	0.9913	0.9927	0.0694	0.0693
60	0.9826	0.9871	0.0928	0.0924
75	0.9714	0.9748	0.1117	0.1145
90	0.9611	0.9713	0.1382	0.1369