3-D stress intensity factors for arrays of inner radial lunular or crescentic cracks in a typical spherical pressure vessel

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 535-548

  Perl, M ^a   Bernshtein, V ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULGE FORMING; CRACK DEPTHS; CRACK FRONTS; CRACK LENGTH; FATIGUE LIFE ASSESSMENT; FE METHOD; RADIUS RATIO; SEMI-ELLIPTICAL CRACK; SINGULAR ELEMENTS; SPHERICAL SHELL; WALL THICKNESS RATIOS;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; BOILERS; CAISSONS; CRACK PROPAGATION; PRESSURE VESSELS; SPHERES; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WELDING; WELDS;

CRACKS;

EID: 74249119330     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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