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THE ENGINEERING FLAW ASSESSMENT METHOD (EFAM)
Author(s) -
Schwalbe
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2695
pISSN - 8756-758X
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00114.x
Subject(s) - reliability engineering , engineering , materials science , structural engineering , forensic engineering
This communication gives an introduction to the Engineering Flaw Assessment Method (EFAM) presently being developed at GKSS. The EFAM consists of various documents describing experimental procedures for determining fracture properties under various conditions, as well as analytical procedures for estimating the crack tip opening displacement in terms of δ 5 , the rate of δ 5 , (d δ 5 /d t ), and the J ‐integral as driving force parameters.