Estimation of fatigue crack growth retardation due to crack branching

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 446-452

  Pavlou, D G ^a   Vlachakis, N V ^a   Pavlou, M G ^b   Vlachakis, V N ^c  

^a HALKIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b Works of Greek Fed Rlwy Org   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crack branching; Crack growth; Fatigue; Retardation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASTICITY; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CRACK BRANCHING; CRACK GROWTH RETARDATION;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 1642269711     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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