Crack closure in weldments

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 683-693

  Hou, C Y ^a   Lawrence, F V ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Non stress relief; Notch closure model; Stress relief; Strip yield model; Welded Joints FCGR

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CRACK CLOSURE; CRACK TIP PLASTIC STRETCHES; NEWMAN METHOD; NOTCH CLOSURE MODEL; NOTCH PLASTIC STRETCHES; PLASTICITY INDUCED CRACK CLOSURE; STRESS RATIO; STRESS RELIEVED WELDED JOINTS; STRIP YIELD MODEL FOR NOTCHED COMPONENT; WELDMENTS;

WELDS;

EID: 0030165571     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1996.tb01313.x     Document Type: Article

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