Fatigue crack growth and life prediction of a single interference fitted holed plate

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 633-644

  Chakherlou, T N ^a   Mirzajanzadeh, M ^a   Saeedi, K H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

crack growth; fatigue; interference fit; life prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CODES; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK INITIATION LIFE; FATIGUE; FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE LIFE; FE-SIMULATION; INTERFERENCE FIT; LIFE PREDICTIONS; OPEN-HOLE SPECIMENS; SMITH-WATSON-TOPPER; STRESS DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL JOINTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRESS CONCENTRATION;

CRACKS;

EID: 77956336912     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2010.01476.x     Document Type: Article

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