Numerical modelling of riveted railway bridge connections for fatigue evaluation

Engineering Structures

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3071-3081

  Imam, Boulent M ^a   Righiniotis, Timothy D ^a   Chryssanthopoulos, Marios K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatigue damage; Finite element method; Riveted bridges; S N method

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVETS; STIFFNESS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

RAILWAY BRIDGE CONNECTIONS; RIVETED BRIDGES; STRINGER-TO-CROSS-GIRDER CONNECTIONS;

RAILROAD BRIDGES;

CRACK INITIATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD BRIDGES; RIVETS; STIFFNESS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

BENCHMARKING; BRIDGE; CRACKING; DAMAGE MECHANICS; FATIGUE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 35448978225     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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