Experimental and analytical estimates of fatigue crack closure in an aluminium-copper alloy part II: A finite element analysis

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 963-974

  Ashbaugh, N E ^a   Dattaguru, B ^b   Khobaib, M ^a   Nicholas, T ^c   Prakash, R V ^d   Ramamurthy, T S ^b   Seshadri, B R ^b   Sunder, R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^d SURFACE ENGINEERING DIVISION   (India)

^e BiSS Research   (India)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Elastic plastic finite element analysis; Fatigue crack growth; Linear and power law strain hardening; Load v COD data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTOGRAPHY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY; STRAIN HARDENING;

FATIGUE CRACK CLOSURE; LASER INTERFEROMETRY;

ALUMINUM COPPER ALLOYS;

EID: 0030718384     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb01540.x     Document Type: Article

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