Multiple surface crack propagation: Numerical simulations and experimental tests

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 135-148

  Citarella, Roberto ^a   Perrella, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

DBEM; Load spectrum; Three dimensional crack propagation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENT; DUAL BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD (DBEM); FRACTURE ANALYSIS; LOAD SPECTRUM; MULTIPLE SURFACE CRACK PROPAGATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL CRACK PROPAGATION;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 12844261796     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00842.x     Document Type: Article

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