Stress-life fatigue behaviour of aluminum alloy foams

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 199-208

  McCullough, K Y G ^a   Fleck, N A ^a   Ashby, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FOAMS; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE STRESS;

METALLIC FOAMS; RATCHETTING;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0034430551     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2000.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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