A unified interpretation of the power laws in fatigue and the analytical correlations between cyclic properties of engineering materials

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1524-1531

  Carpinteri, Alberto ^a   Paggi, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dimensional analysis; Fatigue crack growth; Fatigue modelling; Fatigue parameters; Fatigue property charts; S N curves

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE MODELLING; FATIGUE PARAMETERS; FATIGUE PROPERTY CHARTS; S-N CURVES;

CRACK DETECTION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GRAPH THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESSES;

FATIGUE DAMAGE;

EID: 67651004854     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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