An edge-stiffened semi-infinite elastic plate containing a circular hole under tension at infinity has been studied using a conformal mapping technique. Melan ’s stiffener condition in Cartesian coordinates has been newly formulated as a resultant shear stress condition in bipolar coordinates. The solution is sought in series form, and by truncating the system of equations, it is numerically solved. Pertinent stress distributions are examined to illustrate the roll of the stiffener under the presence of a circular hole near the straight edge. It has been concluded that the stiffener contributes to indirectly suppressing the stress concentration around the hole.
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