Paper Title
SCF On Isotropic Rectangular Plate With Central Circular Hole Using Finite Element Analysis
Abstract
The present work is the study of effect of stretching of an isotropic rectangular plate with centrally located
circular hole under uniform tensile load. A loaded plate with the presence of hole creates stress concentration near the hole
which is much larger than the average stress on the plate. The stress concentration factor has been calculated by using both
analytical and finite element methods. Solidworks simulation is used for modeling and static analysis of linear elastic
isotropic plate of size 500 x 300 x 25 mm, made up of AISI 4340 steel. The uniform tensile load of magnitude of 50 Mpa is
applied on two opposite sides of rectangular steel plate with three different hole to width ratio of 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 and the
error percentage for finding SCF between analytical and finite element method are 4.8 %, 2.9 % and 4.7 % respectively.
Keywords: SCF, Isotropic Plate, AISI 4340 Steel, Static Analysis, FEM