Fracture behavior of a nickel-base single crystal superalloy as predicted by the strain energy density criterion

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-104

  Yue, Z F ^a   Lu, Z Z ^a   Zheng, C Q ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; NICKEL ALLOYS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRAIN; TENSILE TESTING;

STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY CRITERION;

SUPERALLOYS;

FRACTURES; NICKEL ALLOYS;

EID: 0031104358     PISSN: 01678442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8442(96)00038-9     Document Type: Article

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