An improved procedure for the determination of hot spot stresses in tubular joints

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1709-1718

  Soh, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Hot spot stress; Least square fitting; Strain gauge method; Stress analysis; Tubular joint

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STRAIN GAGES; STRESS ANALYSIS; WELDS;

TUBULAR JOINTS;

PIPE JOINTS;

EID: 0031355605     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb01523.x     Document Type: Article

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