Subcritical crack growth in silica optical fibers in a wide range of crack velocities

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-57

  Muraoka, Mikio ^a   Abé, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICA; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CRACK VELOCITIES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0029752351     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb07879.x     Document Type: Article

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