Significance of the elastic peak stress evaluated by FE analyses at the point of singularity of sharp V-notched components

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 95-106

  Meneghetti, G ^a   Lazzarin, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Finite element analysis; Notch stress intensity factor; Stress intensity factor; V notches

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ELASTIC PEAK STRESS; NOTCH STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR (NSIF); SHARP V-NOTCHED COMPONENTS;

STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

EID: 33947502245     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2006.01084.x     Document Type: Article

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