The significance of crack tip deformation for short and long fatigue cracks

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 475-484

  Hammouda, M M I ^a   El Sehily, B M ^a   De Los Rios, E R ^b  

^a AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crack tip deformation; EN 9 steel; Finite element analysis; Long fatigue cracks; Short fatigue cracks

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; ELASTIC MODULI; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STEEL; STRAIN HARDENING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; YIELD STRESS;

CRACK TIP DEFORMATION; CRACK TIP ZONE; FATIGUE CRACKS; POISSON RATIO; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRESS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0030129340     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1996.tb00983.x     Document Type: Article

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