Statistical analysis of ductile fracture properties of an aluminum casting

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4610-4625

  Teng, X ^a   Mae, H ^b   Bai, Y ^a   Wierzbicki, T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HONDA R AND D CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cast aluminum alloy; Ductility; Probability; Shear tests; Tensile tests

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM CASTINGS; ALUMINUM METALLOGRAPHY; BRITTLENESS; CURVES (ROAD); DESCRIBING FUNCTIONS; DYNAMIC LOADS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE TESTING; KETONES; LIGHT METALS; METAL CASTING; METAL CASTINGS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PLASTICITY; PLASTICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REINFORCEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHEARING MACHINES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; STRAIN; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TENSILE TESTING; TESTING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

(8 HYDROXY QUINOLINE) ALUMINUM; ELSEVIER (CO); FRACTURE PROPERTIES; FRACTURE STRAIN (FS); LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; ROUND BAR SPECIMENS; SHEAR FRACTURING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (IGC: E4/K7); STATISTICAL STUDY; TENSILE FRACTURES; TENSILE TESTS; TEST DATA; TRUE STRESS; WEIBULL PROBABILITY;

DUCTILE FRACTURE;

EID: 47549096781     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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