I hope I'm doing something fundamentally wrong that somebody can point out!
I looked up published stress-concentration factors (SCF) for a cylindrical rod with a notch in bending only (1) and tried to simulate the same condition with Solidworks Premium's linear CAD and FEM (2). My conundrum is...
In thread323608 tom1953 wrote, in part:
>>jclarkw, I've got a copy of this publication and, if you can't get a copy elsewhere, I might be able to assist you in some way.<<
Tom, I know this book (which I am still trying to get from TARRC) gives a semi-empirical formula for correcting the...