Fatigue reliability reassessment procedures: State-of-the-art paper

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 271-276

  Byers, William G ^a,f   Marley, Mark J ^b,f   Mohammadi, Jamshid ^c,f   Nielsen, Richard J ^d,f   Sarkani, Shahram ^e,f  

^a Structures Construction   (United States)

^b Offshore Design A S   (Norway)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e George Washington University   (United States)

^f ASCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; INSPECTION; RELIABILITY; REPAIR; SERVICE LIFE; SIMULATION;

BAYES THEOREM; CONDITION ASSESSMENT; FATIGUE RELIABILITY REASSESSMENT;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0031103105     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(1997)123:3(271)     Document Type: Article

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