Application of the virtual crack closure technique to calculate stress intensity factors for through cracks with an elliptical crack front

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 327-342

  Fawaz, S A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Combined loading; Finite element analysis; Lap splice joint; Part elliptical; Stress intensity factor; Through; Virtual crack closure technique

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTOGRAPHY; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

BOUNDARY COLLOCATION; ELLIPTICAL CRACK FRONT; LAP-SPLICE JOINTS; VIRTUAL CRACK CLOSURE METHOD;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

ALUMINUM; CRACK; FATIGUE; STRESS;

EID: 0032005630     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(97)00126-4     Document Type: Article

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