An enhanced probabilistic model for cleavage fracture assessment accounting for local constraint effects

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 77, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3573-3591

  Hohe, Jörg ^a   Hardenacke, Volker ^a   Luckow, Sabrina ^a   Siegele, Dieter ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cleavage fracture; Ferritic material; Local approach; Probabilistic model; Transferability

Indexed keywords

CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; FERRITIC MATERIALS; LOCAL APPROACH; PROBABILISTIC MODEL; TRANSFERABILITY;

CRACKS; FERRITE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; NUCLEATION;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

EID: 78649486404     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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