Theoretical modelling of fatigue threshold for aluminium alloys

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-48

  Li, Xu Dong ^a   Edwards, L ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIUM ALLOYS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE ANALYSIS;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SHEAR STRESS;

CRACK TIP BLUNTING; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; FATIGUE THRESHOLD;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0029674927     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00206-5     Document Type: Article

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