A third-order state-space model for fatigue crack growth

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1045-1055

  Qu, R ^a   Patankar, R P ^a,b   Rao, M D ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack growth; Modeling; Simulation; State space; Third order

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOAD TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DUCTILE ALLOYS; SECOND-ORDER STATE-SPACE MODEL; THIRD-ORDER STATE-SPACE MODEL;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 33751099039     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2006.01074.x     Document Type: Article

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