Low cycle fatigue of spot welds under constant and variable amplitude loading

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Fermér, Mikael ^a   Henrysson, Hans Fredrik ^a   Wallmichrath, Marc ^b   Rupp, Andreas ^b  

^a VOLVO CAR CORPORATION   (Sweden)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR STRUCTURAL DURABILITY AND SYSTEM RELIABILITY LBF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT CONTROL; FATIGUE TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SPOT WELDING; WELDS;

FORCE AND DISPLACEMENTS; HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE; LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LOAD SIGNAL; LOW CYCLE FATIGUES; LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE TESTS; VARIABLE AMPLITUDE LOADING; VARIABLE AMPLITUDES;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 85072444811     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2003-01-0913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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