Critical plane approach for the assessment of the fatigue behaviour of welded aluminium under multiaxial loading

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 507-513

  Kueppers, M ^a   Sonsino, C M ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR STRUCTURAL DURABILITY AND SYSTEM RELIABILITY LBF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aluminium welds; Bending and torsion; Critical plane; Multiaxial stress states

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BENDING (DEFORMATION); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOAD TESTING; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS; WELDS;

IN-PHASE LOADING; MULTIAXIAL LOADING; MULTIAXIAL STRESS STATES; OUT-OF-PHASE BENDING; WELDED ALUMINUM;

FATIGUE TESTING;

EID: 0038284102     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2003.00674.x     Document Type: Article

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