Fatigue crack closure at positive stress
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N.J.I. Adams
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Article
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1972
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Recently Elber proposed that fatigue cracks close at positive stress levels during constant amplitude stress cycling. To investigate this behaviour, centrally cracked 2024-T3 A~umiRium ahoy sheets were tested. Crack opening displacements and strains near the fracture surface were measured for a prop