Stress intensity factors for cracks emanating from two-dimensional semicircular notches using the composition of SIF weight functions

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 423-435

  Teh, L S ^a   Brennan, F P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composition; Constitutive weight functions; Stress intensity factor; Weight function; Weight function coefficients

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CRACKS; CURVE FITTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

COMPOSITION MODEL; CONSTITUTIVE WEIGHT FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTION; SEMICIRCULAR NOTCHES; WEIGHT FUNCTION COEFFICIENTS;

STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

EID: 17744364893     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2005.00872.x     Document Type: Article

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