The effect of chord pre-load on the static strength of uniplanar tubular K-joints

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn 12, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-10

  Van Der Vegte, G J ^a,b   Makino, Y ^a   Wardenier, J ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chord pre load; FE analyses; K joints; Static strength; Tubular joints

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

STATIC STRENGTH; TUBULAR JOINTS;

JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 1842583361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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