Damage criterion and safety assessment approach to tubular joints

Engineering Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 424-434

  Wang, B ^a   Hu, N ^a   Kurobane, Y ^b   Makino, Y ^b   Lie, S T ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Damage criterion; Macrocrack initiation; Modified CEGB approach; Safety assessment; Tubular joints

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; CRACK INITIATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DAMAGE CRITERION; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MACROCRACK INITIATION; TUBULAR JOINTS;

JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0033883358     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00134-5     Document Type: Article

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