Prediction of Fatigue Crack Growth Rate and Stress Intensity Factors Using the Finite Element Method

Figure 5

The predicted crack path of CTS01. (a) ANSYS results, (b) FRANC2D/L, (c) experimental and numerical outcome of [50], (d) BemCracker2D software [32], and (e) Quebra2D software [32].

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