Effects of stress ratio on fatigue crack growth of thermoset epoxy resin

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1772-1778

  Kanchanomai, C ^a   Thammaruechuc, A ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Creep effect; Cyclic dependence; Epoxy resin; Fatigue crack growth; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; CREEP; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MECHANICS; THERMOSETS;

CREEP EFFECTS; CYCLIC DEPENDENCE; FRACTURE MECHANICS PARAMETERS; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; NONLINEAR ELASTICS; THERMOSET EPOXY RESINS; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME DEPENDENT FRACTURE;

EPOXY RESINS;

EID: 79956076831     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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