Applications of DTALE: Damage tolerance analysis and life enhancement [3-D non-plannar fatigue crack growth]

SID Structural Integrity and Durability

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-20

  Atluri, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrary 3D surface crack; Damage tolerance analysis; Finite element method; Life enhancement; Symmetric Galerkin boundary element method; The alternating method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELASTIC MODULI; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; GALERKIN METHODS; POISSON RATIO; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALTERNATING METHOD; ARBITRARY SURFACE CRACK; DAMAGE TOLERANCE ANALYSIS AND LIFE ENHANCEMENT (DTALE); FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; SYMMETRIC GALERKIN BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 21844470738     PISSN: 15513750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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