Ductile crack growth-III. Transition to cleavage fracture incorporating statistics

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 603-615

  Xia, Lin ^a   Shih, C Fong ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DUCTILITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STATISTICS; STEEL;

CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; DUCTILE TEARING; FERRITIC STEEL; FRACTURE RESISTANCE;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030128697     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-5096(95)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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