A local approach to cleavage fracture in ferritic steels following warm pre-stressing

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 931-942

  Hadidi Moud, S ^a   Mirzaee Sisan, A ^a   Truman, C E ^a   Smith, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cleavage fracture; Failure probability; Local approach; Residual stress; Stress triaxiality; WPS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; CRACK PROPAGATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE VESSELS; PRESTRESSING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STEEL; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; FAILURE PROBABILITY; LOCAL STRESS BASED APPROACH; PRESSURE VESSEL STEELS; STRESS TRIAXIALITY; WARM PRESTRESSING;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 4644244252     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00804.x     Document Type: Article

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