Determining fatigue crack opening loads from near-crack-tip displacement measurements

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1343, 1999, Pages 157-174

  Riddell, W T ^a   Piascik, R S ^b   Sutton, M A ^c   Zhao, W ^c   McNeill, S R ^c   Helm, J D ^c  

^a Struct and Dynamics Division DTS 76   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

FATIGUE CRACK OPENING LOADS; NEAR-CRACK-TIP DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0033364151     PISSN: 10403094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp15756s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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