A general model of fatigue crack growth under variable amplitude loading

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 673-683

  Liu, Jiantao ^a   Du, Pingan ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Crack closure effect; Crack retardation effect; Fatigue and fracture; Plastic effect; Variable loading

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CRACK CLOSURE; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; STATE SPACE METHODS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

CRACK CLOSURE EFFECTS; CRACK RETARDATION EFFECTS; FATIGUE AND FRACTURES; PLASTIC EFFECTS; VARIABLE LOADINGS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 84862316530     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-011-4656-x     Document Type: Article

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