Fatigue crack growth measurements under spectrum loading

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 483-497

  Yamada, Kentaro ^a   Cao, Qiuliang ^a   Okado, Naoki ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WEST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack growth rate; Load interaction; Spectrum loading; Variable amplitude loading

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; STEEL TESTING; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRESS;

LOAD INTERACTION; SPECTRUM LOADING; VARIABLE AMPLITUDE LOADING;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FATIGUE CRACK; LOAD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STEEL; STRESS;

EID: 0033938291     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(99)00143-5     Document Type: Article

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