A simple technique for constructing the full stress and displacement fields in elastic plates with multiple cracks

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-63

  Gorbatikh, Larissa ^a   Kachanov, Mark ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack interactions; Cracks; Stress field

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLYNOMIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRACK INTERACTIONS; CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENT (COD);

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0033747166     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(00)00004-7     Document Type: Article

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