• Akash A Bhavsar
• Virendra Sharma
• Jitendra Patel

The study describes the effect of uniaxial tensile stress on aluminum foil with three different crack characteristics. Firstly, aluminum foil with very small crack in the middle has been tested and effect of stress has been studied. After that aluminum foil with relatively small circular crack compared to first circular crack has been studied and characteristic of fracture mechanics discussed. Lastly, bigger circular crack in the middle of the aluminum foil has been tested and the results are analyzed for fracture mechanics properties. For all cases, FEA model using Abaqus has been utilized to understand the fracture characteristics, using von misses stresses. The aluminum foil is very useful to understand fracture characteristics and provides opportunity to learn more about shape of the fracture contour. The aluminum foil is very useful to understand the crack growth characteristics, stress contours, deformations. The experiment is also very useful to understand the plastic behavior of the aluminum foil and study the characteristics of the plastic zone of the aluminum foil with different crack size and shapes.

Abaqus, Fracture Mechanics, crack propagation, Finite Element Analysis, structural analysis

"STUDY OF EFFECT OF UNIAXIAL TENSILE STRESS ON CRACK PROPAGATION AND STRUCTURAL STABILITY WITH FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA).", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.101-105, MAY-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805771.pdf

"STUDY OF EFFECT OF UNIAXIAL TENSILE STRESS ON CRACK PROPAGATION AND STRUCTURAL STABILITY WITH FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA).", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp101-105, MAY-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805771.pdf