Crack growth under general load spectrum: Numerical simulation and experimental tests

Computational Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 159-169

  Cali C ^a   Citarella, R ^a   Perrella, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; BINARY CODES; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DATA REDUCTION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC PROPAGATION; DAMAGE TOLERANCE; LOAD SPECTRUM; STRESS RATIO;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 4544362526     PISSN: 14667266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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