Crack tip opening angle optical measurement methods in five pipeline steels

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2453-2468

  Darcis, Ph P ^a   McCowan, C N ^a   Windhoff, H ^b   McColskey, J D ^a   Siewert, T A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Soft Imaging System Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack tip opening angle; Modified double cantilever beam CTOA test set up; Optical angle measurement methods; Pipeline steels

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CANTILEVER BEAMS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; FRACTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

CRACK TIP OPENING ANGLE; MODIFIED DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAM; OPTICAL ANGLE MEASUREMENT METHODS;

STEEL PIPE;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CANTILEVER BEAMS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; FRACTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STEEL PIPE;

EID: 39149088946     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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