Transferability of elastic-plastic fracture toughness using the Weibull stress approach: Significance of parameter calibration

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 101-117

  Ruggieri, Claudio ^a   Gao, Xaosheng ^b   Dodds Jr , Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

Cleavage fracture; Local approach; Statistical effects; Weakest link; Weibull stress

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL STRESS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CALIBRATION; ELASTIC PLASTIC ANALYSIS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; STRESS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034282274     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(00)00052-7     Document Type: Article

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