Tutankhamun's chariots: Secret treasures of engineering mechanics

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 637-646

  Sandor, B I ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient engineering; Ancient fracture control; Ancient machines; Chariot design; Chariots; Multiaxial loading

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FRACTURE TESTING; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

ANCIENT ENGINEERING; ANCIENT FRACTURE CONTROL; CHARIOT DESIGN; CHARIOTS; MULTIAXIAL LOADING;

FRACTURE;

EID: 2942711777     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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