Coupling of the Weibull stress model and macroscale models to predict cleavage fracture

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 71, Issue 13-14, 2004, Pages 2079-2103

  Petti, Jason P ^a   Dodds Jr , Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ASTM E1921 02; Cleavage fracture; Constraint loss; Ferritic steels; Finite element modeling; Local approach; Master curve; Transition region

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DUCTILITY; FERRITES; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY; PROBABILITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CONSTRAINT LOSS EFFECTS; FERRITIC STEELS; SMALL SCALE YIELDING (SSY);

STEEL;

FRACTURE;

EID: 1842714402     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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