The application of fracture mechanics to cracking in stork werkspoor marine diesel engines (IM-STM-001)

When cracking was discovered in the bed-plates of a number of Stork Werkspoor TM410 diesel engines, one of the remedies suggested by the manufacturers was to modify the form of the grooves in the bed-plate from which the cracks had initiated (Fig. 1). These grooves serve to locate the main...