Defect tolerance assessment of ARIANE 5 structures on the basis of damage mechanics material modelling

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-73

  Windisch, Michael ^a   Sun, Dong Zhi ^b   Memhard, Dieter ^b   Siegele, Dieter ^b  

^a MT Mechatronics GmbH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brittle fracture; Critical crack size; Damage mechanics; Ductile fracture; Fracture control; NDI limit

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CLARIFICATION; DAMAGE DETECTION; DUCTILE FRACTURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TESTING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

3D NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; ANALYTICAL METHODS; ANALYTICAL TOOLS; CRITICAL CRACK SIZE; CRYOGENIC TANKS; DAMAGE MECHANICS; DAMAGE MECHANICS MODELS; DEFECT TOLERANCES; FAILURE PREDICTIONS; FRACTURE CONTROL; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MATERIAL MODELS; NDI LIMIT; OPTIMISATION; SMALL SCALES; STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS; UPPER STAGES;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

EID: 57649187076     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2008.04.019     Document Type: Article

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