Deterministic and stochastic analyses of fracture processes in a brittle microstructure system

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 72, Issue 12 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 1920-1941

  Tomar, Vikas ^a   Zhou, Min ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DETERMINISTIC ANALYSIS; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; PHASE MORPHOLOGY; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 18144420423     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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