Variable amplitude fatigue crack growth in a mild steel for railway axles: Experiments and predictive models

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 848-862

  Beretta, S ^a   Carboni, M ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

A1N steel; Crack propagation; Fatigue; Railway axles; Strip Yield; Variable amplitude

Indexed keywords

A1N STEEL; FATIGUE; RAILWAY AXLES; STRIP-YIELD; VARIABLE AMPLITUDE;

ALGORITHMS; AXLES; CARBON STEEL; EXPERIMENTS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; WHEELS;

CRACKS;

EID: 79952490747     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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