Fatigue cracks nucleation on steel, acoustic emission and fractal analysis

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1820-1825

  Biancolini, M E ^a   Brutti, C ^a   Paparo, G ^b   Zanini, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Crack nucleation; Fatigue; Fractal

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTALS; NUCLEATION;

CRACK NUCLEATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION;

STEEL;

EID: 33748437515     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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