The structure consists of a very large steel plate they will be used to transfer an in plane tensile stress. You have information from the company that performed a non-destructive testing technique if there are any flaws inside the plate. This non-destructive testing technique is based on ultrasonic wave transmission and will only detect a crack if it is bigger than 2.5 mm. No flaws were detected in the plate. You decided to pull some samples from a similar plate and you determined that the KIC value of these plates are 40 MPa*m0.5. Required:
Estimate the maximum in plane tensile stress that you would suggest that this plate should carry.