SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1972
STP34115S

Toward Assessing the Effects of Crack Front Curvature (CFC)

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Crack front curvature (CFC) is shown to affect the K calibration of four special geometries for which analysis is currently practicable. The inference is drawn that assuming straight crack fronts in, say, test specimens having non-zero CFC may be non-conservative; the aim of this paper is to initiate further investigation of the effects of CFC.

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Swedlow, JL
Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ritter, MA
Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Developed by Committee: E08
Pages: 79–89
DOI: 10.1520/STP34115S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4615-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0362-7