The theory of critical distances: a review of its applications in fatigue

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1706-1724

  Susmel, Luca ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Multiaxial fatigue; Notches; Theory of critical distances

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LOADS; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

LINEAR-ELASTIC STRESS; THEORY OF CRITICAL DISTANCES;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

AXIAL LOADS; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

EID: 38549133517     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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