A boundary element model of plasticity-induced fatigue crack closure

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 857-871

  Nowell, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary elements; Crack closure; Crack tip plasticity; R ratio

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLASTICITY; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; STRESSES;

CONSTANT AMPLITUDE LOADING; CRACK TIP PLASTICITY; DUGDALE TYPE STRIP YIELD ZONE; FATIGUE CRACK CLOSURE; OVERLOAD UNDERLOAD CYCLE;

CRACKS;

EID: 0032115235     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00071.x     Document Type: Article

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