KI evaluation by the displacement extrapolation technique

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 243-255

  Guinea, Gustavo V ^a   Planas, Jaime ^a   Elices, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Displacement extrapolation techniques; Finite elements; Stress intensity factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000575148     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(00)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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