A three-dimensional weight function method - Evaluation and applications

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1296, Issue , 1997, Pages 563-579

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Newman Jr , James C ^b   Sutton, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corner crack; Embedded crack; Stress intensity factor; Surface crack; Weight function method

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

WEIGHT FUNCTION METHOD;

CRACKS;

EID: 5544220991     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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