Effects of applied stress level on plastic zone size and opening stress ratio of a fatigue crack

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 519-526

  Chang, Tienchong ^a,b   Li, Guoqiang ^b   Hou, Juan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack closure; Opening stress; Reversed plastic zone; Stress level

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CRACK INITIATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

FATIGUE CRACK CLOSURES; OPENING STRESS; REVERSED PLASTIC ZONE; STRESS LEVELS;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 15744395147     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2004.09.008     Document Type: Article

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