Relationship between crack opening behavior and crack tip scattering and diffraction of longitudinal waves

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 943-947

  Mihara, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nomura, Shinji ^a   Akino, Masashi ^a   Yamanaka, Kazushi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Crack tip opening displacement; Fatigue crack; Spectroscopy; Time of flight diffraction; Tip diffraction wave

Indexed keywords

CRACK CLOSURE; CRACK TIP OPENING DISPLACEMENT; FATIGUE CRACK; LONGITUDINAL WAVES; TIME OF FLIGHT DIFFRACTION; TIP DIFFRACTION WAVE;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFRACTION; ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIMITERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPY; WELDING;

CRACK INITIATION;

EID: 5444229249     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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