Analysing the fatigue crack growth in structural details

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 345-361

  Wang, G S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Aeronautical Research Institute of Sweden   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; YIELD STRESS;

APPROXIMATE THREE DIMENSIONAL WEIGHT FUNCTION METHOD; CRACK CLOSURE; CYCLIC STRESS; ELBER CRACK GROWTH RELATION; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; REVERSE YIELDING; STRIP YIELDING MODEL; UNIFIED THEORETICAL PROCEDURE;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

DETAILS; FATIGUE CRACKS; STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030072155     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00149-2     Document Type: Article

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