Short fatigue crack growth behaviour of a ferritic steel weld metal

Science and Technology of Welding and Joining

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 95-102

  Venkateswaran, P ^a,b   Ganesh Sundara Raman, S ^a   Pathak, S D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b TATA MOTORS LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Ferrite steel weld; Microstructure crack interaction; Non propagating cracks; Short fatigue cracks; Transition crack length

Indexed keywords

EID: 27444432068     PISSN: 13621718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174329305X29500     Document Type: Article

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