Viscoelastic Creep Crack Growth: A Review of Fracture Mechanical Analyses

Mechanics Time-Dependent Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 241-268

  Bradley, W ^a   Cantwell, W J ^b   Kausch, H H ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fracture; Fracture mechanics; Polymers; Viscoelastic crack growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000196625     PISSN: 13852000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009766516429     Document Type: Article

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