Towards standardising a sub-size specimen for fatigue crack propagation behaviour of a nuclear pressure vessel steel

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 607-624

  Sriharsha, H K ^a   Pandey, R K ^b   Chatterjee, S ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Compliance; Fatigue crack growth; Pivot point; Steels; Three point bend

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE CRACK; PRESSURE VESSEL; STEEL;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRESS;

COMPACT TENSION (CT); CRACK MOUTH OPENING DISPLACEMENT (CMOD); FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATE (FCGR); THREE POINT BEND (TPB);

STEEL;

EID: 0033237753     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(99)00075-2     Document Type: Article

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