Mesomechanical simulation of crack propagation through graded ductile zones in hardmetals

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 81-89

  Mintchev, Or ^a,b,c   Rohde, J ^a,b   Schmauder, S ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Co island; Cohesive Surface Model; Finite Element Method; Hardmetal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002116779     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-0256(98)00048-2     Document Type: Article

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