Effect of stress ratio and specimen thickness on fatigue crack growth of CK45 steel

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-73

  Costa, J D M ^a   Ferreira, J A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; OXIDATION; PLASTICITY; STEEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TENSILE TESTING;

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; SPECIMEN THICKNESS; STRESS RATIO;

STRESSES;

FATIGUE CRACK;

EID: 0032173162     PISSN: 01678442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8442(98)00044-5     Document Type: Article

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