Experimental investigation on ductile stable crack growth emanating from wire-cut notch in AISI 4340 steel

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 235, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 637-647

  Mourad, A H I ^a   Alghafri, M J ^a   Abu Zeid, O A ^a   Maiti, S K ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTTING; DUCTILITY; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STEEL;

STABLE CRACK GROWTH (SCG); WIRE CUTTING TECHNIQUES;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 31744444163     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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