A model for fatigue defect nucleation in thermite rail welds

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 655-668

  Fry, G T ^a   Lawrence, F V ^b   Robinson, A R ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical plane analysis; Inclusions; Pores; Thermite rail welds

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DEFECTS; ELASTIC MODULI; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; INCLUSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLURGY; NUCLEATION; POROSITY; RAILS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THERMIT WELDING;

CRITICAL PLANE ANALYSIS; ESHELBY EQUIVALENT INCLUSION; FATIGUE DEFECT NUCLEATION; FATIGUE MODEL; FINDLEY CRITICAL PLANE FATIGUE; HERTZIAN CONTACT ZONE; HERTZIAN TANGENTIAL TRACTION; METALLURGICAL DISCONTINUITIES; POISSON RATIO; THERMITE RAIL WELDS;

WELDS;

EID: 0030173696     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1996.tb01311.x     Document Type: Article

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