A Proposal for Specimen Size Requirements in Toughness Qualification with the Weibull Stress Criterion

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 62-65

  Miyata, Takashi ^a   Tagawa, Tetsuya ^a   Yang, Hongkai ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cleavage fracture toughness; Constraint loss; Crack tip stress field; J integral; Specimen size requirement; Toughness scaling model; Weibull shape parameter; Weibull stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037768100     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jte12076j     Document Type: Article

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