The effect of undercut and residual stresses on fatigue behaviour of misaligned butt joints

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 453-469

  Nguyen, Ninh T ^a   Wahab, M A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; SURFACE TREATMENT; TENSILE TESTING; WELDS; YIELD STRESS;

BUTT WELDED JOINTS; FATIGUE LIFE; FATIGUE STRENGTH; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; SUPERPOSITION; TENSILE LOADING; TENSILE STRESSES; UNDERCUT;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

FATIGUE ANALYSIS; JOINTS-WELDED;

EID: 0030267104     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(96)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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