Multiple random crack propagation using a boundary element formulation

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1077-1090

  Leonel, Edson Denner ^a,b   Venturini, Wilson Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Fatigue; Fracture mechanics; Random crack growth

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC SYSTEM; BOUNDARY ELEMENT FORMULATIONS; CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRESS THEORY; COLLOCATION POINTS; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; CRACK FACES; CRACK GROWTH; DUAL BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; EFFECTIVE STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR; FATIGUE; FATIGUE MODEL; FRACTURE MECHANICS ANALYSIS; HYPERSINGULAR INTEGRAL EQUATION; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; LOCALISATION; PARIS' LAW; PROPAGATION ANGLE; RANDOM CRACK GROWTH;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COALESCENCE; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MECHANICS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79953026005     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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