Premature failure of prestressed steel bars

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-227

  Valiente, A ^a   Elices, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Damage tolerance; Fracture toughness; Prestressing; Stress intensity factors; Surface cracks

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS;

STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

STRESS;

EID: 0032172927     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-6307(98)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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