Two parameter description of crack growth initiation including thickness effects through probabilistic modelling

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-199

  Shehu, S ^a   Nilsson, F ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brittle ductile transition; Constraint; Crack growth initiation; Probabilistic analyses; Thickness effect

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

PROBABILISTIC MODELLING; SMALL SCALE YIELDING; THICKNESS EFFECT;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030647209     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb00277.x     Document Type: Article

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