Dynamic reliability models for fatigue crack growth problem

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 543-556

  Wang, K S ^a   Chang, S T ^a   Shen, Y C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; CURVE FITTING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERRORS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CRACK CLOSURE PHENOMENON; INITIAL CRACK DISTRIBUTION; LOAD TIME HISTORY;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0030196783     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00216-2     Document Type: Article

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