Significance of fractography for investigations of fatigue crack growth under variable-amplitude loading

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-99

  Schijve, J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTOGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

CONSTANT-AMPLITUDE CYCLES; PERIODIC OVERLOAD (OL) CYCLES; VARIABLE-AMPLITUDE LOADING;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032629834     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1999.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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