Closure effects on fatigue crack growth rates at constant and variable amplitude loading

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 71, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 1273-1288

  Månsson, Tomas ^a   Öberg, Hans ^a   Nilsson, Fred ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Fatigue crack growth; Variable amplitude loading

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

CRACK CLOSURE LEVELS; CRACK WAKE; FATIGUE PROPAGATION;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LOADING; PLASTIC DEFORMATION;

EID: 1142268970     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(03)00209-1     Document Type: Article

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