Experimental investigations on the growth of small fatigue cracks in naval steel

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 489-498

  Elmalki Alaoui, Aboulghit ^a   Thevenet, D ^a   Zeghloul, A ^b  

^a ENSIETA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Long fatigue crack; Short fatigue crack; Stress ratio

Indexed keywords

CRACK CLOSURE; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DAMAGE TOLERANCE; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

CONSTANT AMPLITUDE LOADING; NAVAL STRUCTURAL STEEL;

STEEL;

EID: 34250007127     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2007.01116.x     Document Type: Article

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