Crack propagation in a brittle elastic material with defects

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 79-86

  Valentini, M ^a   Serkov, S K ^b   Bigoni, D ^a   Movchan, A B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BRITTLENESS; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

POLYA-SZEGO MATRICES;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0033097488     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: 15289036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2789172     Document Type: Article

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