Cyclic crack propagation at corners and holes

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 25-30

  Dhondt, G ^a  

^a MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corner; Crack; Geometric discontinuity; Intersection angle

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

GEOMETRIC DISCONTINUITY; INTERSECTION ANGLE;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 12844277523     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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