Effect of welding processes on toe cracking behaviour of pressure vessel grade steel

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 575-587

  Balasubramanian, V ^a   Guha, B ^b  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Cruciform joint; Fatigue crack growth; Stress concentrations; Weld fatigue; Welding process

Indexed keywords

CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FREQUENCY AGILITY; GAS METAL ARC WELDING; MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS; PRESSURE VESSEL CODES; SHIELDING; STEEL; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WELDING;

CRUCIFORM JOINTS; MECHANICAL RESONANCE; TOE CRACKING; VESSEL GRADE;

CRACK INITIATION;

CRACKING; FATIGUE; PRESSURE VESSEL; STEEL; WELDING;

EID: 2142695762     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2003.09.005     Document Type: Article

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