Q4) Consider a 25mm thick steel specimen with an edge crack.

A test is performed in which

the specimen is crack line with 10,000N at the edge crack. While artificially increasing
the crack size, the crack opening displacement δ at the edge is measured. The following
relation between crack length 'a' and δ is given by,

δ = 8x10-7 a3

what is the maximum crack length for this steel assuming plane strain condition?

Following are data of the material:

KIC= 1785N/mm3/2 , E=210,000 N/mm2 , ν= 0.28, σys= 650 N/mm2