Predicting the effects of load ratio on the fatigue crack growth rate and fatigue threshold

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 411-423

  Kardomateas, G A ^a   Carlson, R L ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressive excursions; Fatigue crack growth; Fatigue threshold; Inelastic discrete asperities; Load ratio; Stress intensity factor range

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; ELASTICITY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; HARDNESS; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

COMPRESSIVE EXCURSIONS; FATIGUE THRESHOLD; INELASTIC DISCRETE ASPERITIES; LOAD RATIO;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032050177     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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