Loading rate effects on cleavage fracture of pre-cracked CVN specimens: 3-D studies

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 249-270

  Koppenhoefer, Kyle C ^a   Dodds Jr , Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D analysis; Cleavage; Fracture mechanics; Impact loading; Weibull stress

Indexed keywords

FERRITES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STEEL; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; IMPACT LOADING;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STEEL;

EID: 0031252208     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(97)00076-3     Document Type: Article

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