Fatigue crack growth in stiffened steel tubular joints in seawater environment

Engineering Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1390-1401

  Gandhi, P ^a   Ramachandra Murthy, D S ^a   Raghava, G ^a   Madhava Rao, A G ^a  

^a CSIR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Corrosion fatigue; Fatigue crack growth; Fracture mechanics; Offshore structures; Stiffened tubular joints

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CYCLIC LOADS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEAWATER CORROSION; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

CORROSION FATIGUE TEST; STIFFENED STEEL TUBULAR JOINTS; STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY;

OFFSHORE STRUCTURES;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE CRACK; OFFSHORE PLATFORM; STEEL; TUBULAR JOINT;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE; JOINT; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; STEEL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0342323017     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(99)00080-2     Document Type: Article

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