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Fracture Mechanics Approach to Estimate Fatigue Lives of Welded Lap-Shear Specimens

¹Poh-Sang Lam², Jwo Pan³

1 This manuscript has been authored by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC under ContractNo. DEAC09- 08SR22470 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Governmentretains and the publisher, by accepting this article for publication, acknowledges that the UnitedStates Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish orreproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for United States Governmentpurposes.
2 Materials Science & Technology, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.A.
3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.