Three-dimensional, parallel, finite element simulation of fatigue crack growth in a spiral bevel pinion gear

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1148-1170

  Ural, Ani ^a   Heber, Gerd ^a   Wawrzynek, Paul A ^a   Ingraffea, Anthony R ^a   Lewicki, David G ^b   Neto, Joaquim B C ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computational fracture mechanics; Fatigue crack growth; Finite element method; Gears; Parallel computation; Three dimensional finite element contact analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEARS; PLASTICITY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY-ELEMENT-BASED APPROACH; COMPUTATION TIME; PINION GEARS; STRESS INTENSITY;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 13844253925     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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