Fatigue crack growth, free vibrations, and breathing crack detection of aluminium alloy and steel beams

Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 595-608

  Andreaus, U ^a   Baragatti, P ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breathing crack; Damage detection; Euler beam; Fatigue crack growth; Free vibration

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIUM ALLOYS; BREATHING CRACK; CONTROL PROCEDURES; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK OPENING; CRACKED BEAMS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; EULER BEAM; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FREE VIBRATION; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; LOCAL FLEXIBILITY; METAL BEAM; NARROW SLOT; NONLINEAR DETECTION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; STEEL BEAMS; THREE-POINT BENDING TEST; TRANSVERSE CRACK;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BENDING TESTS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE DAMAGE; STEEL;

CRACK DETECTION;

EID: 70349337460     PISSN: 03093247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/03093247JSA527     Document Type: Article

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