Experimental and numerical investigation of fracture in a cast aluminium alloy

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 47, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 3352-3365

  Fagerholt, E ^a   Dorum C ^a,b   Borvik T ^a,c   Laukli, H I ^a,d   Hopperstad, O S ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arcan tests; Crack propagation; Digital image correlation; Element erosion; Stochastic variation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIUM ALLOYS; ARCAN TESTS; CAST ALUMINIUM; DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATIONS; ELEMENT EROSION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPLICIT FINITE ELEMENT CODES; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FLOW THEORIES; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT CURVES; FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR; FRACTURE PARAMETER; HIGH-RESOLUTION DIGITAL CAMERAS; MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR; MESH DENSITY; MESHING TECHNIQUES; MIXED MODE FRACTURE; NON-LOCAL DAMAGE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PATTERNED SURFACE; PROBABILISTIC FRACTURE; STOCHASTIC VARIATION; STRAIN FIELDS; TENSION LOADS; TEST MACHINE; TEST SETS; USER-DEFINED MATERIAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CAMERAS; CERIUM ALLOYS; CRACK DETECTION; CRACK PROPAGATION; EROSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOAD TESTING; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TESTING; TESTING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FRACTURE;

EID: 77957232855     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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