A model for crack closure

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 493-509

  Chen, D L ^a,b   Weiss, B ^a   Stickler, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENT; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE CRACKS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

CALCULATIONS; CRACKS; ELASTIC MODULI; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRESSES;

CRACK CLOSURE; CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENT; FRACTURE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; STRESS INTENSITY RANGE;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0030088401     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00169-7     Document Type: Article

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