A large plate of steel is loaded in tension to a stress of 245 MPa. If the fracture toughness of the steel plate (KIc) is 44 MPa.m0.5, determine the critical crack length at which the plate would catastrophically fail, for
i) a through the thickness edge crack
ii) a through the thickness internal crack.
NOTE: The geometric factor Y is not given. We will assume that for large plate Y =1

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