Early development of fatigue cracking at manual fillet welds

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 669-681

  Verreman, Y ^a   Nie, B ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Manual fillet welds; Residual stresses; Short fatigue cracks; Strain gauges; V notches

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRAIN GAGES; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

FATIGUE CRACKING; MANUAL FILLET WELDS; V NOTCHES; WELDED CRUCIFORM JOINTS;

WELDS;

EID: 0030167753     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1996.tb01312.x     Document Type: Article

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