Interfacial crack initiation under quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions: An experimental study

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-60

  Tippur, H V ^a   Xu, L ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack tip fields; Interfacial cracks; Shearing interferometry; Static and dynamic fracture toughness

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFEROMETRY; LOADS (FORCES); PHOTOGRAPHY; SHEAR STRESS;

CRACK TIP FIELDS; DYNAMIC FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; DYNAMIC LOADING; ELASTIC MISMATCH BIMATERIAL SYSTEM; INTERFACIAL CRACK INITIATION; QUASI STATIC LOADING; SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY; STATIC FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

CRACK INITIATION;

EID: 0030715397     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb00401.x     Document Type: Article

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