Weight functions applied to fatigue crack growth analysis

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1093-1104

  Beghini, M ^a   Bertini, L ^a   Vitale, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack analysis; Weight Functions

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

STRESS FIELD; WEIGHT FUNCTION TECHNIQUE;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0030721847     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb00315.x     Document Type: Article

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