Fracture of geometrically scaled, notched three-point-bend bars of high strength steel

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 62, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 291-310

  Giovanola, Jacques H ^a,c   Kirkpatrick, Steven W ^a   Crocker, James E ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blunt notch; Ductile fracture; Scaling rules

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; BARS (METAL); BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACK PROPAGATION; DUCTILITY; FRACTOGRAPHY; METALLOGRAPHY; SHEAR STRESS; STEEL; STRAIN; TENSILE STRESS;

BLUNT NOTCH; DUCTILE FRACTURE; SCALING RULES;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0032652337     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(98)00093-9     Document Type: Article

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