Fatigue Crack Propagation Threshold: What Is It and How Is It Measured?

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 220-233

  Marci, Günter ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack propagation threshold KT; Material property; Nonpropagation condition Kth

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION THRESHOLD; NONPROPAGATION CONDITION;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032070206     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jte11995j     Document Type: Article

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