On the √area relationship and the short fatigue crack threshold

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 269-278

  McEvily, A J ^a   Endo, M ^b   Murakami, Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

area parameter model; Crack closure; Elastic plastic behaviour; Endurance limit; Fatigue crack threshold; Kitagawa Takahashi diagram, small cracks; Small defects

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY;

LINEAR-ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS (LEFM);

CRACKS;

EID: 0037370147     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2003.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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