Fatigue life assessment of welded joints under variable amplitude loading - State of present knowledge and recommendations for fatigue design regulations

Welding in the World

Volumn 48, Issue SPEC., 2004, Pages 87-102

  Sonsino, C M ^a   Maddox, S J ^b   Hobbacher, A ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR STRUCTURAL DURABILITY AND SYSTEM RELIABILITY LBF   (Germany)

^b TWI LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; STANDARDS; STEEL; STIFFNESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

AMPLITUDE LOADING; FATIGUE LIFE ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL STEEL; WELDED JOINTS;

WELDS;

EID: 4143112211     PISSN: 00432288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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