The nominal tensile strength of disordered materials: A statistical fracture mechanics approach

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 421-435

  Carpinteri, Alberto ^a   Ferro, Giuseppe ^a   Invernizzi, Stefano ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

DISORDERED MATERIALS; MULTIFRACTAL SCALING LAW; TRUNCATED DEFECT SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0031268497     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(97)00044-1     Document Type: Article

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