Interactions of two coplanar elliptical cracks embedded in finite thickness plates under uniform tension

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 179-191

  Guozhong, Chai ^a   Kangda, Zhang ^a   Dongdi, Wu ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE VESSELS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE THICKNESS PLATES; TWO COPLANAR ELLIPTICAL CRACKS; UNIFORM TENSION;

CRACKS;

EID: 0029753361     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00051-8     Document Type: Article

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