Crack growth characteristics of carbon nanotube-based polymer composites subjected to cyclic loading

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3102-3110

  Kuronuma, Yu ^a   Shindo, Yasuhide ^a   Takeda, Tomo ^a   Narita, Fumio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Composites; Cyclic or delta J; Fatigue crack growth; Finite element analysis; Fracture mechanics

Indexed keywords

CRACK GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS; CRACKED PLATE; CYCLIC LOADINGS; CYCLIC OR DELTA J; ELASTIC-PLASTIC FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE LOADINGS; FATIGUE-CRACK-GROWTH TESTS; FRACTURE SURFACES; J-INTEGRAL RANGE; LIQUID NITROGEN TEMPERATURE; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LIQUID NITROGEN; NANOCOMPOSITES;

CRACKS;

EID: 80054859059     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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