Stress concentrations of K tubular joints subjected to basic and combined loadings

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Structures and Buildings

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-28

  Soh, Ai Kah ^a   Soh, Chee Kiong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; MECHANICAL TESTING; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

BASIC LOADING; COMBINED LOADING; DIRECT ANALYSIS METHOD; FATIGUE DESIGN; HOT SPOT STRESSES; LARGE SCALE TEST RIG; SUPERPOSITION; TUBULAR JOINTS;

JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

FATIGUE LIFE; JOINTS-TUBULAR; OFFSHORE PLATFORMS; STRESS/STRAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029675953     PISSN: 09650911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/istbu.1996.28151     Document Type: Article

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