FRACTURE MECHANICS AND SHIPS

It is stated that limited room is available for usefully applying linear elastic fracture mechanics in commerical ships, except in the field of fatigue crack growth. General yielding fracture mechanics are somewhat more valuable. Then crack opening displacement (COD) is a sufficiently accurate parameter for static loading conditions. Whether these are sufficiently representative for ship loadings is doubtful. In connection to brittle fracture propagation and arrest there is a need for methods of analysis for welded plate-stiffener assemblies. The input information is mostly given in terms of Charpy-test results.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prospects of Fracture Mechanics, International Conference, Proceedings, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, June 24-28,1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Noordhoff International Publishing

  P.O. Box 26
  Leiden,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Nibbering, JJW
• Conference:
  • Prospects of Fracture Mechanics, International Conference, Proceedings, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, June 24-28,1974.
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 353-366

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cracking; Dislocation (Geology); Fatigue cracking; Fracture mechanics
• Old TRIS Terms: Crack opening displacement
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00138032
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 23 1976 12:00AM