A crack closure model of fatigue crack growth in plates of finite thickness under small-scale yielding conditions

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-173

  Codrington, John ^a   Kotousov, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CABLE STAYED BRIDGES; CRACK CLOSURE; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CRACK CLOSURE MODELS; CRACK GROWTH RATES; EFFECTIVE STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR RANGES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTHS; FINITE THICKNESSES; FIRST ORDERS; FITTING PARAMETERS; LOAD RATIOS; PLATE THEORIES; PLATE THICKNESSES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATIONS; SCALE YIELDING; THEORETICAL MODELS; THICKNESS EFFECTS;

CRACKS;

EID: 56549115363     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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