Recent developments in fatigue crack growth assessment

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1759-1768

  Molent, L ^a   Jones, R ^b   Barter, S ^a   Pitt, S ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack growth; Fatigue modelling; Fatigue testing; Fractography; Life prediction

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; FRACTOGRAPHY;

CRACK LENGTH; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE MODELLING; LIFE PREDICTION;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 33748415180     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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