Cleavage fracture in surface cracked plates: Experiments and numerical predictions

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP

Volumn 393, Issue , 1999, Pages 11-16

  Gao, Xiaosheng ^a   Dodds, Robert H ^a   Tregoning, Robert L ^b   Joyce, James A ^c   Link, Rick E ^c  

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

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CALIBRATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRESS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLEAVAGE FRACTURES; SURFACE CRACKED PLATES; WEIBULL STRESS MODELS;

PRESSURE VESSELS;

EID: 0033343865     PISSN: 0277027X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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