Durability assessment of automotive aluminium parts

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1135-1148

  Heuler, P ^a   Birk, O ^a  

^a AUDI AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chassis aluminium parts; Corrosion fatigue; Local strain concepts; Omission; Spectrum loading

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; AUTOMOBILE MATERIALS; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CORROSION FATIGUE; CORROSION PROTECTION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; PERFORMANCE;

CHASSIS ALUMINUM PARTS; DURABILITY ASSESSMENT;

DURABILITY;

EID: 0036945798     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2002.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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