The purpose of this investigation was to experimentally test one of the assumptions of a recent modified version of the theory of generalized plane stress. The form postulated by the theory for the stress variation through the thickness of a plate containing a crack will be compared with that obtained by three-dimensional photoelastic analysis. Specimens covering the range from thin to moderately thick plates were examined by the frozen stress technique. The experimentally measured transverse variation of the in-plane stress components σx and σy was in excellent agreement with that postulated by the theory.
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