Some effects of random microstructural variations on creep rupture

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 57, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 205-226

  Van Der Giessen, E ^a   Onck, P R ^a   Van Der Burg, M W D ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; CREEP; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE CREEP RUPTURE; MICROMECHANICAL MODEL;

POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 0031131243     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(97)00009-x     Document Type: Article

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