Fatigue Crack Growth in Plastically Compressible Solids: Role of Negative Stress Ratio, Plastic Compressibility and Strain Softening

Subject Areas : Engineering

Y Mittal ¹ , D Khan ² , S Pandey ³ , G.Chand Gupta ⁴

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Thechnology Varansi, Varansi, India
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Thechnology Varansi, Varansi, India
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Thechnology Varansi, Varansi, India
4 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Thechnology Varansi, Varansi, India

Received: 2020-07-30 Accepted : 2020-10-03 Published : 2020-12-01

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