The effect of undercut, misalignment and residual stresses on the fatigue behaviour of butt welded joints

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 769-778

  Nguyen, N T ^a   Wahab, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Butt welded joints; Misalignments; Residual stress fields; Undercuts; Weld surface cracks

Indexed keywords

BENDING NOMINAL STRESS RANGE; DISTORTION ANGLE; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; MISALIGNMENTS; PARIS EQUATION; RESIDUAL STRESS FIELDS; STRESS INTENSITY GEOMETRY CONFIGURATION; UNDERCUTS; WELD PROFILE GEOMETRY; WELD SURFACE CRACKS;

ALIGNMENT; BUTT WELDING; CRACK INITIATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; SURFACE TREATMENT; YIELD STRESS;

JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0030165030     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1996.tb01321.x     Document Type: Article

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