The application of the dual boundary element method to the analysis of cracked stiffened panels

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-105

  Salgado, N K ^a   Aliabadi, M H ^a  

^a WESSEX INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CRACK PROPAGATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SHEET METAL; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

DUAL BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; J INTEGRAL TECHNIQUE; STIFFENED PANELS; STIFFENERS;

CRACKS;

EID: 0030150060     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00111-5     Document Type: Article

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