Abstract
Many experimental methods for determining stress intensity factors involve knowing the position of the crack-tip. Using measured coordinates of the crack-tip before testing can be insufficiently reliable. On the other hand, results herein show that assuming the maximum measured signal occurs at the crack-tip can be erroneous. The present study develops and demonstrates a least-squares method to evaluate the crack-tip coordinates of composites accurately and systematically from measured temperature information.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4845-4859 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | International Journal of Solids and Structures |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 14-15 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2007 Jul |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Modelling and Simulation
- General Materials Science
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Applied Mathematics