Fatigue life and crack closure in specimens subjected to variable amplitude loads under plane strain conditions

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 587-600

  Josefson, B L ^a   Svensson, T ^b   Ringsberg, J W ^a   Gustafsson, T ^a   De Mare J ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Fatigue life prediction; Level crossing; Plane strain; Variable amplitude

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOADS (FORCES); STATISTICAL METHODS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CRACK CLOSURE;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

COMPUTER MODELING; CRACK CLOSURE; FATIGUE CRACK; FATIGUE LIFE ANALYSIS; STRAIN;

EID: 0033942769     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(00)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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