The stress triaxiality constraint and the Q-value as a ductile fracture parameter

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 375-390

  Henry, B S ^a   Luxmoore, A R ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constraint; Ductile fracture; Finite element; Q value; Stress triaxiality

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; DUCTILITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

STRESS TRIAXIALITY FACTOR;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0031191673     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(97)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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