Evaluation of the T-stress and stress intensity factor for a cracked plate in general case using eigenfunction expansion variational method

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 478-487

  Chen, Y Z ^a   Lin, X Y ^a   Wang, Z X ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eigenfunction expansion variational method; Stress intensity factor; T stress

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRACKS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

APPLIED LOADING; BOUNDARY VALUES; CIRCULAR PLATES; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); CRACKED PLATES; EIGENFUNCTION EXPANSION VARIATIONAL METHOD; NUMERICAL EXAMINATIONS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; RECTANGULAR PLATES; STRESS INTENSITY; T STRESSES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 48249103107     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2008.01244.x     Document Type: Article

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