The significance of plastic zone growth under cyclic loading and crack opening/closing model in fatigue crack propagation

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 482, Issue , 2005, Pages 95-102

  Toyosada, Masahiro ^a   Gotoh, Koji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Cyclic plasticity; Fatigue; Numerical simulation of fatigue crack growth; RPG(Re tensile Plastic zone's Generated) load; Threshold of stress intensity factor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK CLOSURE; CYCLIC LOADS; PLASTICITY; UNLOADING;

COMPRESSIVE PLASTIC ZONES; DUGDALE MODELS; FATIGUE CRACK DRIVING FORCES; PLASTIC ZONE GROWTH; STRESS DISTRIBUTIONS; TENSION LOADING; THICKNESS STRAIGHT CRACKS;

FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 35148861101     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/0-87849-964-4.95     Document Type: Conference Paper

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