The fracture behaviour of a centre cracked tensile specimen

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-216

  Lei, Y ^a   Neale, B K ^b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Nuclear Electric plc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centre cracked specimen; Compliance functions; J intergrals; Limit loads

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; TENSILE PROPERTIES;

CENTRE CRACKED SPECIMEN; COMPLIANCE FUNCTIONS; J INTEGRALS; LIMIT LOADS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 0030688085     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb00278.x     Document Type: Article

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