Crack growth mechanism of natural rubber under fatigue loading studied by a real-time crack tip morphology monitoring method

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 83, 2014, Pages 43942-43950

  Weng, Gengsheng ^a   Yao, Hong ^a   Chang, Aijun ^a   Fu, Kun ^a   Liu, Yanpeng ^a   Chen, Zhongren ^a  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

CRACK-GROWTH MECHANISMS; FATIGUE LOADINGS; MONITORING METHODS;

EID: 84907646891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra06518b     Document Type: Article

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