Prediction of Crack Initiation Direction for Inclined Crack Under Biaxial Loading by Finite Element Method

Subject Areas : Engineering

P.C Gope ¹ , S.P Sharma ² , A.K Srivastava ³

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Technology, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology
2 - Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
3 - Deputy Manager (Design) Air Craft Upgrade Research and Design Centre, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

Received: 2010-04-12 Accepted : 2010-11-01 Published : 2010-09-30

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