A method to reduce the scatter in fatigue crack growth rate data

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1341-1350

  Zheng, J ^a   Powell, B E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corner notched specimen; Data analysis; Non linear regression; Udimet 720; Walker's model

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR REGRESSION; WALKER'S MODEL;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030717217     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb01492.x     Document Type: Article

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