J. Toribio1, J.C. Matos2, B. González1, J. Escuadra2
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.5, No.1, pp. 57-72, 2009, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2009.005.057
Abstract In this paper an automatic (analytical-numerical) procedure is proposed to model the front of a transverse surface crack located in the circular section of a lineal structural element (wire, cable, strand, rod, shaft,..., i.e., a cylindrical geometry) by means of a fitting ellipse, obtaining the ellipse parameters from a series of points in therealcrack front and adjusting them to thetheoreticalfitting ellipse by a least square method. For symmetric cracks two modelling procedures are formulated: (i) in the first one, a fitting ellipse is used wit its centre belonging to the periphery of the circular section More >
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