Crack tip fields in strain gradient plasticity

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1621-1648

  Xia, Z Cedric ^a,b   Hutchinson, John W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

A, crack tip plasticity; A, fracture; B, constitutive behavior; C, asymptotic analysis; C, finite elements

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SOLIDS; STRAIN;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIOR; COUPLED STRESS THEORY; CRACK TIP PLASTICITY; DEFORMATION THEORY OF ELASTICITY;

PLASTICITY;

EID: 0030269548     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-5096(96)00035-X     Document Type: Article

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