Ductile crack growth and constraint in pipelines subject to combined loadings

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2010-2028

  Nourpanah, Nikzad ^a   Taheri, Farid ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combined loading; Crack tip constraint; Ductile crack growth; Fracture failure mode; Pipelines

Indexed keywords

3D NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; CIRCUMFERENTIAL CRACKS; COMBINED LOADING; CRACK DIMENSIONS; CRACK FRONTS; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK RESISTANCE; CRACK TIP CONSTRAINT; DUCTILE CRACK GROWTH; EQUIVALENT PLASTIC STRAIN; FE MODEL; FRACTURE ASSESSMENT; FRACTURE FAILURE; FRACTURE FAILURE MODE; GROWING CRACKS; INELASTIC BENDING; INTERNAL PRESSURE; MATERIAL MODELS; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; PIPE WALLS; R-CURVES; RESPONSE CHARACTERISTIC; SINGLE EDGE NOTCH BEND SPECIMENS; SINGLE EDGE NOTCHES; STRESS TRIAXIALITY; THREE SYSTEMS; WELDING DEFECTS;

CRACK TIPS; FAILURE MODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING; PIPE; PIPELINES; RATING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DUCTILE FRACTURE;

EID: 79955571951     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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