Fragmentation of corrosion protection coatings: a combined finite-element discrete-element study

Procedia Engineering 109 ( 2015 ) 3 – 7

1877-7058 © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the Gruppo Italiano Frattura (IGF) doi: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.06.201

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