A novel approach for evaluating weight functions for cracks in finite bodies

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 343-352

  Ferahi, M ^a   Meguid, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elliptical crack; Slice synthesis technique; Stress intensity factor; Weight function

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

SLICE SYNTHESIS METHOD; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0031988554     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(97)00091-x     Document Type: Article

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