Fatigue crack growth and craze-induced crack tip shielding in polycarbonate

Polymer

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1558-1570

  James, M N ^a,b   Christopher, C J ^a   Lu, Y ^a   Patterson, E A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Craze induced shielding; Polycarbonate; T stress

Indexed keywords

ELASTOPLASTICITY; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; POLYCARBONATES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHIELDING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CRACK TIP STRESS; CRACK TIP STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR; CRACK-TIP POSITION; CRAZE-INDUCED SHIELDING; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FOUR-PARAMETER MODEL; T STRESS;

CRACK TIPS;

EID: 84862779317     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2012.01.032     Document Type: Article

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