A fracture mechanics analysis on the fatigue behaviour of cruciform joints of duplex stainless steel

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 791-810

  Infante, V ^a   Branco, C M ^a   Martins, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Duplex stainless steel; Fatigue behaviour; FE analysis; Life prediction

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); NUMERICAL METHODS; STAINLESS STEEL; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CRACK LENGTH; CRUCIFORM JOINTS; DUPLEX STAINLESS STEEL; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; STRESS RATIO;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0141842667     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2003.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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