The effect of a free surface on fatigue crack behaviour

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1265-1269

  Hutar P ^a   Nahlik L ^a,b   Knesl Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF MATERIALS   (Czech Republic)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack; Generalized stress intensity factor; Stress singularity; V notch; Vertex singularity

Indexed keywords

CRACK SHAPE; CURVED CRACK; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION RATE; FATIGUE CRACKS; FATIGUE LIFETIME; FREE SURFACES; GENERALIZED STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; NUMERICAL ESTIMATION; POISSON'S RATIO; STRESS SINGULARITIES; THIN STRUCTURE; V-NOTCHES;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; ESTIMATION; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; POISSON RATIO; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; SURFACES;

CRACKS;

EID: 77950863847     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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