Crack Growth Behavior of Welded Stiffened Panel

Procedia Engineering 109 ( 2015 ) 473 – 483

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.2015.06.251

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a_{Department. of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering - University of Naples Federico II - P.le V. Tecchio, 80 - 80125 Naples, Italy} b_{Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno Fisciano (SA), Italy}

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