Fatigue life prediction of resistance spot welds under variable amplitude loads

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1332, 1999, Pages 802-814

  Pan, Ning ^a   Sheppard, Sheri D ^a   Widmann, James M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE STRESS; WELDS;

FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION; MEAN STRESS EFFECT; RESISTANCE SPOT WELDS;

FATIGUE TESTING;

EID: 0032633568     PISSN: 10403094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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