Fracture toughness of layered structures: Embrittlement due to confinement of plasticity

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3743-3754

  Broedling, Nils C ^a   Hartmaier, Alexander ^b   Gao, Huajian ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dislocation dynamics; Fracture; Layered structures; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK TIPS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); DUCTILE FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY;

DISLOCATION DYNAMICS; LAYERED STRUCTURES;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK TIPS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); DUCTILE FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY;

EID: 43549099969     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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