On the dominant role of crack closure on fatigue crack growth modeling

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 25, Issue 9-11, 2003, Pages 843-854

  Meggiolaro, Marco Antonio ^a   De Castro, Jaime Tupiassú Pinho ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Fatigue crack growth; Sequence effects; Thickness effect

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; STRAIN; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

VARIABLE AMPLITUDE (VA) LOADING;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0242410131     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-1123(03)00132-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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