Statistical fracture modeling: Crack path and fracture criteria with application to homogeneous and functionally graded materials

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 69, Issue 14-16, 2002, Pages 1521-1555

  Becker Jr , T L ^a   Cannon, R M ^b,c   Ritchie, R O ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack kinking; Fracture toughness; Functionally graded materials; Mixed mode fracture; Weibull statistics

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CRACK INITIATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; LOADS (FORCES); STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; TOUGHNESS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS (FGM);

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FRACTURE; FUNCTIONALLY-GRADED MATERIAL;

EID: 0036718435     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(02)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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