The interaction of ultrasound with contacting asperities: Applications to crack closure and fatigue crack growth

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, Mechanical Engineering, Bearing Pressures +19

Bearing pressures and cracks

Harald Westergaard · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1939 · 922 citations

Engineering, Strain Localization, Mechanics +8

Research Techniques in Nondestructive Testing

R.S. Sharpe, J. D. Achenbach · Journal of Applied Mechanics · 1984 · 410 citations · Full text

Research Techniques, Reliability Engineering, Engineering +6

Some considerations on the modelling of oxide-induced fatigue crack closure using solutions for a rigid wedge inside a linear elastic crack

S. Suresh, Robert O. Ritchie · Scripta Metallurgica · 1983 · 61 citations

Materials Science, Linear Elastic Crack, Engineering +12

A model for fatigue crack closure

C.J. Beevers, K. W. Bell, R. L. Carlson et al. · Engineering Fracture Mechanics · 1984 · 55 citations

Engineering, Fatigue Crack Closure, Mechanics +9