Elastic-plastic crack driving force for tubular X-joints with mismatched welds

Engineering Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1419-1434

  Qian, X ^a   Dodds Jr , Robert H ^a   Choo, Y S ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

3 D finite element analysis; Circular hollow section (CHS); Domain integral; J integral; Mesh tieing; Mismatched welds; Weld toe crack

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; WELDS;

DOMAIN-INTEGRAL APPROACH; ELASTIC-PLASTIC CRACK DRIVING FORCE; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; WELD STRENGTH;

CRACKS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 20544454498     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2005.03.013     Document Type: Article

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