Evaluation of elastic T-stress by the stress difference method

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 589-605

  Yang, B ^a   Ravi Chandar, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRACKS; ELASTICITY; INSPECTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; THERMOELASTICITY;

STRESS DIFFERENCE METHOD;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033318860     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(99)00082-x     Document Type: Article

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