Development and application of a crack t
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Michael A. Sutton; Xiaomin Deng; Fashang Ma; James C. Newman Jr; Mark James
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Consistent with experimental observations, a crack tip opening displacement (CTOD)-based, mixed mode fracture criterion is developed for predicting the onset and direction of crack growth. The criterion postulates that crack growth occurs in either Mode I or Mode II direction, depending upon whether