Fracture analysis of strength-mismatched welded wide plates by line spring elements

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 987-1001

  Chiesa, Matteo ^b   Skallerud, Bjorn ^a   Thaulow, Christian ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cracked shells; Line springs; Plasticity; Shell finite elements; Solid elements; Yield stress mismatch

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WELDS; YIELD STRESS;

DISCRETIZATION; LINE SPRING ELEMENTS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CRACK; DEFECT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; PIPELINE; STRESS; WELD;

EID: 0035947148     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(00)00132-6     Document Type: Article

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