Stability analysis and experimental verification for optimum notch configuration in chevron-notched round bar specimens

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 531-539

  Ray, K K ^a   Veerababu, A ^b   Sarkar, R ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Intercontinental Development and Engineering AE and E Pvt Ltd   (India)

^c DEFENCE METALLURGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Chevron notched specimens; Fracture toughness; Normalized stress intensity factor; Round bar; Stability analysis; Three point bend loading

Indexed keywords

CHEVRON-NOTCHED SPECIMENS; NORMALIZED STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR; ROUND BAR; STABILITY ANALYSIS; THREE-POINT BEND LOADING;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; CRACKS; FRACTURE; METAL ANALYSIS; STEEL; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 66749121844     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2009.01357.x     Document Type: Article

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