Anomalous aspects of crack closure
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R. S. Vecchio
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Article
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1986
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Conventional fatigue crack propagation (FCP) testing reveals a strong dependence of crack growth rate (da/dN) on the stress intensity factor range (AK) that often assumes a sigmoidal relationshi p . At low values of ilK, the rapid decrease in crack growth rates associated with decreasing ยฃK levels i