Strip yield crack analysis for multiple site damage in infinite and finite panels - A weight function approach

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2585-2596

  Wu, X R ^a,b   Xu, W ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL MATERIALS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aircraft damage tolerance; Crack opening displacement; Multiple site damage; Strip yield model; Weight function method

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; CENTER CRACKS; CLOSED FORM; COLLINEAR CRACKS; CRACK ANALYSIS; CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENT; FINITE BOUNDARY; FINITE WIDTH; MULTIPLE SITE DAMAGE; STRIP YIELD MODEL; WEIGHT FUNCTION METHOD; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

CRACKS;

DAMAGE TOLERANCE;

EID: 80051599943     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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