Weibull stress model to predict cleavage fracture in plates containing surface cracks

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 481-493

  Gao, X ^c   Dodds Jr , R H ^c   Tregoning, R L ^a   Joyce, J A ^b   Link, R E ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACKS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE VESSELS; PROBABILITY; STEEL; STRESS ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; SURFACE CRACKS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0032640106     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1999.00202.x     Document Type: Article

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