The damage process in a finite-sized brittle specimen with interacting microcracks

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1105-1115

  Carpinteri, A ^a   Yang, G P ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary elements; Brittle materials; Crack interactions; Crack propagation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; BRITTLE FRACTURE; BRITTLENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROCRACKS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

CRACK INTERACTIONS; DAMAGE PROCESS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0030678935     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb00316.x     Document Type: Article

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