Fatigue crack growth analysis of pre-strained 7475-T7351 aluminum alloy

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 934-942

  Al Rubaie, Kassim S ^a   Barroso, Emerson K L ^a   Godefroid, Leonardo B ^b  

^a EMBRAER S A   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

7475 T7351; Fatigue crack growth rate; Modeling; Pre strain; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRAIN CONTROL; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

7475-T7351; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATE; PRE-STRAIN;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 33646498359     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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