New developments of the Wallin, Saario, Törrönen cleavage fracture model

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3367-3377

  Wallin, K ^a   Laukkanen, A ^b  

^a ACADEMY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbides; Cleavage fracture; Local approach; Statistical

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; CLEAVAGE INITIATION LOCATION;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CARBIDES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 41749101471     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.07.018     Document Type: Article

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