Two unequal cracks with coalesced plastic zones - the generalized Dugdale model approach

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-42

  Mukhtar Ali, M ^a   Ali, Rashid ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PLASTICITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE STRESS;

CRACK-OPENING DISPLACEMENT; DUAL HILBERT PROBLEM; PLASTIC ZONE;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0343081539     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6636(99)00037-X     Document Type: Article

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