Engineering estimation of the lower bound toughness in the transition regime of ferritic steels

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1273-1278

  Zerbst, U ^a   Heerens, J ^a   Pfuff, M ^a   Wittkowsky, B U ^a   Schwalbe, K H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ductile to brittle transition; Lower bound toughness; Weakest link mechanism; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001118920     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00048.x     Document Type: Article

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