An improved numerical technique for simulating the growth of planar fatigue cracks

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1363-1373

  Lin, X B ^a,b   Smith, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b N code International Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack growth; Fatigue shape simulation; Finite element analysis; Planar cracks; Stress intensity factor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

FATIGUE SHAPE SIMULATION; J INTEGRAL; PLANAR CRACK;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031335043     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb01495.x     Document Type: Article

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