Inverse analysis of the wedge-splitting test

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3173-3188

  Skoček, Jan ^a   Stang, Henrik ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fictitious crack model; Hinge model; Inverse analysis; Softening curve; Wedge splitting test

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

FICTITIOUS CRACK; SOFTENING CURVE; WEDGE-SPLITTING TEST;

CRACK DETECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRACK DETECTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 40849133979     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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