Fatigue and fracture simulation of welded bridge details through a bi-linear crack growth law

Structural Safety

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-158

  Righiniotis, Timothy D ^a   Chryssanthopoulos, Marios K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crack growth; Fatigue reliability; Simulation; Steel bridges; Welded details

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

CRACK GROWTH LAW;

BRIDGES;

BRIDGE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; WELD;

EID: 0347517509     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(03)00038-9     Document Type: Article

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