Fatigue design of complex welded structures

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-69

  Atzori, B ^a   Lazzarin, P ^a   Meneghetti, G ^a   Ricotta, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Notch Stress Intensity Factors; Welded joints

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES; WELDS;

ALUMINIUM STRUCTURES; COMPLEX STRUCTURES; COMPLEX WELDED STRUCTURES; EUROCODES; EUROPEAN STANDARDS; FATIGUE; FATIGUE DESIGN; FATIGUE LOADINGS; FATIGUE STRENGTHS; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE; HOT SPOTTING; NEW APPROACHES; NOTCH-STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRESS FIELDS; STRESS INTENSITY; V NOTCHES; WELD TOES; WELDED JOINTS; WELDING TECHNOLOGIES;

WELDING;

EID: 53849117088     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Haibach E. Die Schwingfestigkeit von Schweissverbindungen aus der Sicht einer örtlichen Beanspruchungsmessung. LBF Report No. FB-77, Darmstadt; 1968.
2. Gimperlein D. S-N curve for welded structures. Weld World 41 (1998) 399-406
3. Verreman Y, Limodin N. Fatigue notch factor and short crack propagation. Eng Fract Mech 2007. doi:10.1016/j.engfractmech.2007.07.005.
4. Atzori B, Meneghetti G. Evaluation of the fatigue strength of welded joints in structural steels by means of an equivalent notch-stress analysis. In: Proceedings of the international conference of new trends in fatigue and fracture, Metz; 2002.
5. Atzori B., Meneghetti G., and Susmel L. Estimation of the fatigue strength of light alloy welds by an equivalent notch-stress analysis. Int J Fatigue 24 (2002) 591-599
6. Yakubovskii V.V., and Valteris I.I. Geometrical parameters of butt and fillet welds and their influence on the welded joint fatigue life. IIW document (1989) XIII-1326-89
7. Haibach E, Atzori B. A statistical re-analysis of fatigue test results on welded joints in Al Mg 5. Description of the procedure and documentation of the evaluated test series. LBF Report No. FB-116, Darmstadt; 1974.
8. Haibach E., and Atzori B. Ein statisticher verfahren für das erneute Auswerten von Ergebnissen aus Schwingfestigkeitsversuchen und für das Ableiten von Bemessungunterlagen. Angewandt auf Schweissverbindungen aus Al Mg 5, Aluminium (1975)
9. Kosteas D., Kiron I., and Sanders W.W. Fatigue behaviour of aluminium alloy weldments. Report with data from the committee on aluminium fatigue data exchange and evaluation (CAFDEE) (1996)
10. Atzori B, Dattoma V. Fatigue strength of welded joints in aluminium alloy: a basis for the Italian design rules. In: Proceedings of the IIW Annual Assembly, IIW Doc. XIII-1088/83, Porto, Portugal; 1983.
11. UNI 8634-85 Standards. Strutture di leghe di alluminio: Istruzioni per il calcolo e l'esecuzione; Dicembre 1985 [in Italian].
12. Atzori B, Haibach E. Deformazioni locali al piede dei cordoni di saldatura d'angolo e loro correlazione con la vita a fatica del giunto. In: Proceedings of the 7th AIAS national conference, Cagliari; 1979 [in Italian].
13. Atzori B., Blasi G., and Pappalettere C. Evaluation of fatigue strength of welded structures by local strain measurement. Exp Mech 25 2 (1985) 129-139
14. Usami S., Kimoto H., and Kusumoto S. Cyclic strain and fatigue strength at the toes of heavy welded joints. Trans Jpn Weld Soc 9 2 (1978)
15. Atzori B., and Lazzarin P. Notch sensitivity and defect sensitivity: two sides of the same medal. Int J Fract 107 1 (2001) L3-L8
16. Williams M.L. Stress singularities resulting from various boundary conditions in angular corners of plates in extension. J Appl Mech 19 (1952) 526-528
17. Lazzarin P., and Tovo R. A notch intensity factor approach to the stress analysis of welds. Fatigue Fract Eng Mater Struct 21 (1998) 1089-1103
18. Taylor D., Barrett N., and Lucano G. Some new methods for predicting fatigue in welded joints. Int J Fatigue 24 (2002) 509-518
19. Lazzarin P., and Livieri P. Notch-stress intensity factors and fatigue strength of aluminium and steel welded joints. Int J Fatigue 23 (2001) 225-232
20. Radaj D., Sonsino C.M., and Fricke W. Fatigue assessment of welded joints by local approaches. 2nd ed. (2006), Woodhead Publishing Limited
21. Lazzarin P., and Zambardi R. A finite-volume-energy based approach to predict the static and fatigue behaviour of components with sharp V-shaped notches. Int J Fract 112 (2001) 275-298
22. Lazzarin P., Lassen T., and Livieri P. A notch-stress intensity approach applied to fatigue life predictions of welded joints with different local toe geometry. Fatigue Fract Eng Mater Struct 26 (2003) 49-58
23. Livieri P., and Lazzarin P. Fatigue strength of steel and aluminium welded joints based on generalised stress intensity factors and local strain energy values. Int J Fract 133 (2005) 247-276
24. Lazzarin P, Berto F, Radaj D. Uniform fatigue strength of butt and fillet-welded joints in terms of the local strain energy density. In: Proceedings of the 9th international fatigue conference, Atlanta, USA; 2006 [on CD rom].
25. Lazzarin P., and Berto F. Control volumes and strain energy density under small and large scale yielding due to tensile and torsion loading. Fatigue Fract Eng Mater Struct 31 (2008) 95-107
26. Lazzarin P., Berto F., Gomez F.J., and Zappalorto M. Some advantages derived from the use of the strain energy density over a control volume in fatigue strength assessments of welded joints. Int J Fatigue 30 8 (2007) 1345-1357
27. Atzori B., Lazzarin P., and Tovo R. Stress field parameters to predict the fatigue behaviour of notched components. J Strain Anal Eng 34 (1999) 437-453
28. Atzori B., Lazzarin P., and Tovo R. From a local stress approach to fracture mechanics: a comprehensive evaluation of the fatigue strength of welded joints. Fatigue Fract Eng Mater Struct 22 (1999) 369-381
29. Atzori B, Lazzarin P, Meneghetti G. Fatigue strength assessment of welded joints: from the integration of Paris' law to a synthesis based on the notch-stress intensity factors of the uncracked geometries. Eng Fract Mech. doi:10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.03.029.
30. Atzori B., and Meneghetti G. Fatigue strength of fillet-welded structural steels: finite elements, strain gauges and reality. Int J Fatigue 23 8 (2001) 713-721
31. Atzori B., Lazzarin P., and Meneghetti G. Fracture mechanics and notch sensitivity. Fatigue Fract Eng Mater Struct 26 (2003) 257-267
32. Atzori B., Lazzarin P., and Meneghetti G. Unified treatment of fatigue limit of components weakened by notches and defects subjected to prevailing mode I stresses. Int J Fract 133 (2005) 61-87
33. Tovo R. On the fatigue reliability evaluation of structural components under service loading. Int J Fatigue 23 7 (2001) 587-598
34. Benasciutti D., and Tovo R. Cycle distribution and fatigue damage assessment in broad-band non-Gaussian random processes. Prob Eng Mech 20 (2005) 115-127
35. EN 1993-1-9 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures, Part 1-9: fatigue; 2005.
36. EN 1999-1-3 Eurocode 9: Design of aluminium alloy structures, Part 1-3: Structures susceptible to fatigue; 2007.
37. Radaj D. Design and analysis of fatigue resistant welded structures (1990), Abington Publishing, Cambridge
38. Hobbacher A, editor. Recommendations for fatigue design of welded joints and components (update) IIW doc XIII-1965-03/XV-1123-03 revision 2007.
39. Meneghetti G., and Tovo R. Fatigue strength assessment of welded structures by means of the Notch-SIF approach. In: Blom A.F. (Ed). Proceedings of the 8th international fatigue congress (2002), Stockholm, Sweden 1873-1880
40. Meneghetti G. The peak stress method applied to fatigue assessment of steel and aluminium fillet-welded joints subjected to mode I loading [pending publication].
41. Doerk O., Fricke W., and Weissenborn C. Comparison of different calculations methods for structural stresses at welded joints. Int J Fatigue 25 (2003) 359-369
42. Poutiainen I., Tanskanen P., and Marquis G. Finite element methods for structural hot spot stress determination - a comparison of procedures. Int J Fatigue 26 (2004) 1147-1157
43. Meneghetti G., and Lazzarin P. Significance of the elastic peak stress evaluated by FE analyses at the point of singularity of sharp V-notched components. Fatigue Fract Eng Mater Struct 30 (2007) 95-106
44. Tovo R., and Livieri P. An implicit gradient application to fatigue of sharp notches and weldments. Eng Fract Mech 74 (2007) 515-526
45. Tovo R., and Lazzarin P. Relationship between local and structural stress in the evaluation of the weld toe distribution. Int J Fatigue 21 (1999) 1063-1078
46. Lazzarin P, Livieri P, Berto F, Zappalorto M. Local strain energy density and fatigue strength of welded joints under uni-axial and multi-axial loading, Eng Fract Mech. doi:10.1016/j.engfractmech.2006.10.019.
47. Lazzarin P., Sonsino C.M., and Zambardi R. A notch stress intensity approach to predict the fatigue behaviour of T butt welds between tube and flange when subjected to in-phase bending and torsion loading. Fatigue Fract Eng Mater Struct 27 (2004) 127-141
48. Atzori B, Dattoma V, Demelio G. Correlazione tra resistenza a fatica e deformazione locale al piede dei cordoni di saldatura di giunti a croce. In: Proceedings of the 21st AIAS National Conference, Genova; 1992 [in Italian].
49. Casavola C., Nobile R., and Pappalettere C. A local strain method for the evaluation of welded joints fatigue resistance: the case of thin main-plates thickness. Fatigue Fract Eng Mater Struct 28 (2005) 759-767
50. Casavola C, Pappalettere C. Application of WEL.FA.RE method on aluminium alloys welded joints. In: Proceedings of the 2005 SEM annual conference and exposition on experimental and applied mechanics; 2005.
51. Casavola C, Pappalettere C. Evaluation of fatigue strength of aluminium alloy welded joints by WEL.FA.RE method: the case of thin main plate thickness. In: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on new trends in fatigue and fracture, Bari, Italy; 2005.