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Guo, R. Bell and X.Wang<br>\n\u201cFatigue Life Prediction of Cracked Padded Plates\u201d (Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 31, 234-241, 2008))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K. Guo, R. Bell and X.Wang<br>\n\u201cThe Stress Intensity Factor Solutions for edge Cracks in a Padded Plate Geometry under General Loading Condition\u201d (International Journal of Fatigue 29, 2007, pp 48-488)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Bach, Michael Gharghouri, Ronald Rogge, Robert Bell, Xin Wang, and Ali Merati<br>\n\u201cResidual Stress Measurement of a Friction Stir Welded Stringer to Skin Lap Joint by Neutron Diffraction\u201d, (15th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Porto, Portugal, July 22-27, 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Bach, Michael Gharghouri, Ronald Rogge, Robert Bell, Xin Wang and Ali Merati<br>\n\u201cResidual Stress Measurement of a Friction Stir Welded Stringer to Skin Lap Joint by Neutron Diffraction\u201d, (15th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Porto, Portugal, July 22-27, 2012)\u201cResidual Stress Measurement of a Friction Stir Welded Stringer to Skin Lap Joint by Neutron Diffraction\u201d, (15th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Porto, Portugal, July 22-27, 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Robert","cu_people_last_name":"Bell","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[37],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-756","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-professor-emeriti"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor Emeritus","cu_people_degree":"B.Sc, Ph.D, Queen's Belfast","cu_building":"CU","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/756\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}