Similitude and the Paris crack growth law

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 30, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 1873-1880

  Jones, R ^a   Molent, L ^b   Pitt, S ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack growth; Fatigue modelling; Paris growth law; Similitude

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

FATIGUE MODELING; PARIS GROWTH LAW; SIMILITUDE;

FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 44749087269     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2008.01.016     Document Type: Article

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