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Int J Adv Manuf Technol DOI 10.1007/s00170-008-1872-z SPECIAL ISSUE - ORIGINAL ARTICLE Determination of J-integral and stress intensity factor using the commercial FE software ABAQUS in austenitic stainless steel (AISI 304) plates G. Venkatachalam R. Harichandran S. Rajakumar C. Dharmaraja C. Pandivelan Received: 26 February 2008 /Accepted: 18 September 2008 # Springer-Verlag London Limited 2008 Abstract This paper presents J-integral and stress intensity discipline. The stress intensity factor (SIF) characterizes the factor solutions for several crack configurations in plates. stresses, strains, and displacements near the crack tip. If the The edge crack is considered for the analysis. The tensile plastic zone near the crack tip is large, then the SIF no longer load is applied and the crack propagation is studied. The characterizes the crack tip conditions. So calculation of SIF finite element method is used to model the plate and mode I is limited to linear elastic fracture mechanics. When the stress intensity factors are evaluated. For solving the FE plastic zone is large or non-linear material behavior becomes model, commercial FE software ABAQUS is used. Several significant, one should discard SIF and crack tip parameters cases including different thickness and crack lengths are (either J-integral or CTOD) that takes larger plastic zone presented for not only linear elastic analysis but also for near the crack tip and non-linear material behavior into elastic-plastic analysis. The 3-D model is taken for the account. Here, an attempt is made to find out J-integral. analysis and eight-noded brick element is used for FE mesh. The T-stress is increasingly being recognized as an important