Investigation of crack tunneling in ductile materials

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 77, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2800-2812

  Lan, Weiming ^a   Deng, Xiaomin ^a   Sutton, Michael A ^a  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack growth; Crack tunneling; Ductile fracture; Finite element; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CRACK FRONTS; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK TIP OPENING DISPLACEMENT; CRACK TUNNELING; DUCTILE MATERIALS; EDGE CRACKS; EFFECTIVE PLASTIC STRAIN; ELASTIC-PLASTIC FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT; FRACTURE CRITERIA; MEAN STRESS; MODEL PROBLEMS; SIMULATION; STRESS AND DEFORMATION; STRESS CONSTRAINTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VON MISES EFFECTIVE STRESS;

CRACK TIPS; DUCTILITY; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DUCTILE FRACTURE;

EID: 77956181205     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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