Fracture analysis of conical shells containing an internal semi-elliptical crack

Subject Areas : Analytical and Numerical Methods in Mechanical Design

C. Burvill ¹ , M.M. Kheirikhah ² , S. Omidi ³ , S. Gohari ⁴

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
3 - Faculty of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University Qazvin, Iran.
4 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.

Received: 2022-09-21 Accepted : 2022-09-21 Published : 2022-06-01

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