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A series of frozen stress photoelastic experiments were conducted on a rocket motor grain geometry containing a natural surface flaw emanating from the tip of the finger of an internal star shaped central hole under internal pressure. Stress intensity distributions for shallow, moderate depth and deep cracks were obtained. Stress intensity distributions around the crack borders were found to be nearly uniform, suggesting the feasibility of two dimensional predictive analyses. Such an approach is proposed.
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Smith, C.W., Wang, L. (1991). Stress Intensity Distributions Around Surface Flaws in Motor Grain Geometries. In: Teoh, S.H., Lee, K.H. (eds) Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3650-1_8
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