Fatigue-life evaluation of steel post structures. I: Background and analysis

Journal of structural engineering New York, N.Y.

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 322-330

  Gilani, Amir ^a   Whittaker, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

STEEL POST STRUCTURES; VON MISES STRESSES;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 0034155648     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2000)126:3(322)     Document Type: Article

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