Determination of crack-tip stress intensity factors in complex geometries by the composition of constituent weight function solutions

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-7

  Brennan, F P ^a   Teh, L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composition; Fatigue crack growth; Stress intensity factor; Weight function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS (LEFM); WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0347128153     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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