Influence of elastic variations on crack initiation in functionally graded glass-filled epoxy

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 69, Issue 14-16, 2002, Pages 1679-1693

  Rousseau, Carl Ernst ^a   Tippur, Hareesh V ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack initiation; Dynamic loading; Elastic gradients; FEA; Functionally graded materials; Optical interferometry; Static loading; Stress intensity factor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS; GLASS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CRACK TIP DEFORMATIONS;

CRACK INITIATION;

CRACK INITIATION; FUNCTIONALLY-GRADED MATERIAL;

EID: 0036719136     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(02)00056-5     Document Type: Article

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