Finite element analysis of plasticity-induced crack closure under plane strain conditions

Bearing Pressures and Cracks: Bearing Pressures Through a Slightly Waved Surface or Through a Nearly Flat Part of a Cylinder, and Related Problems of Cracks

Harald Westergaard · Journal of Applied Mechanics · 1939 · 1.3K citations

Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +17

On numerically accurate finite element solutions in the fully plastic range

J. C. Nagtegaal, David M. Parks, J. R. Rice · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering · 1974 · 977 citations

Computing, Computational Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +14

Bearing pressures and cracks

Harald Westergaard · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1939 · 923 citations

Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Behavior Of Materials +11

Influence of non-singular stress terms and specimen geometry on small-scale yielding at crack tips in elastic-plastic materials

Stefan Larsson, A. J. Carlsson · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1973 · 841 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +15

Limitations to the small scale yielding approximation for crack tip plasticity

J. R. Rice · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1974 · 636 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +12