Micro/macro-crack growth due to creep-fatigue dependency on time-temperature material behavior

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-22

  Sih, G C ^a,b   Tang, X S ^c  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

^c CHANGSHA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Crack growth; Creep and fatigue; Dual scale; High temperature; Interaction; Mechanical; Micro and macro; Micro structure degradation; Multiscaling; Thermal

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BRIDGES; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CREEP; DEGRADATION; HEALTH; HISTORY; LOADING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); SULFATE MINERALS; TUNNEL LININGS;

A-PRIORI; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK SIZES; CREEP AND FATIGUE; CREEP-FATIGUE; CREEP-FATIGUE INTERACTIONS; DAMAGE EVOLUTION; DESIGN TIME; DUAL SCALE; EQUIVALENT CRACK; HEALTH MONITORING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERACTION; LIFE SPAN; LOADING HISTORY; MASTER CURVES; MATERIAL BEHAVIORS; MECHANICAL; MECHANICAL MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MICRO AND MACRO; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICRO-STRUCTURE DEGRADATION; MULTISCALING; ON TIME; PATH DEPENDENT; SCALE MODELING; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MATERIAL PROPERTIES; THERMAL; TIME HISTORY; TIME-DEPENDENT; ULTRA HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL;

FATIGUE DAMAGE;

EID: 51749084874     PISSN: 01678442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tafmec.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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