Application of the strip-yield model from the NASGRO software to predict fatigue crack growth in aluminium alloys under constant and variable amplitude loading

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-313

  Skorupa, M ^a   Machniewicz, T ^a   Schijve, J ^b   Skorupa, A ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Crack growth predictions; Fatigue tests; Strip yield model; Variable amplitude loading

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRACK PROPAGATION; FORECASTING;

AMPLITUDE LOADING; CRACK CLOSURE; STRIP-YIELD MODEL;

FATIGUE TESTING;

AIRCRAFT; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; FORECASTING;

EID: 33750634010     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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