Fracture is the main form of marine structural failure due to the action of waves and oceans. It is necessary to monitor the initiation and extension of cracks in a timely and accurate manner, and the stress intensity factor (SIF) is an important indicator for analysing the propagation of cracks. Based on existing research, this paper combines the calculation method of the SIF based on a single strain gauge (SSG) and maximum crack opening displacement (CMOD) and proposes a method based on the Kalman filter (KF). Numerical simulation and experimental verifications of this method have been carried out. The results show that the method can be used for a variety of configurations of precracked specimens. The KF-based method obtains more accurate results than the SSG-based and CMOD-based methods, and the relative error (RE) is not greater than 1.2%.
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