On predicting small fatigue crack growth and fatigue life from long crack data in 2024 aluminium alloy

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 709-718

  Halliday, M D ^a   Cooper, C ^a   Poole, P ^b   Bowen, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aluminium 2024; Fatigue crack growth; Fatigue life prediction; Fracture mechanics; Probabilistic analysis; Small cracks; Stochastic analysis

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LIFE PREDICTION;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0037845283     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-1123(03)00052-5     Document Type: Article

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