Probabilistic fracture assessment of surface cracked pipes using strain-based approach

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1491-1509

  Sandvik, Andreas ^a   Østby, Erling ^b   Thaulow, Christian ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ductile tearing; Fracture mechanics; Pipelines; Probabilistic methods

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACKS; DUCTILE FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPELINES; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STRAIN;

CRITICAL STRAIN; DUCTILE TEARING; PIPELINE GIRTH WELD; SURFACE CRACKED PIPELINES; TANGENCY CRITERION;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACKS; DUCTILE FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPELINES; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STRAIN;

EID: 33646173680     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2006.01.026     Document Type: Article

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