Variable-amplitude fatigue strength of structural steel bridge details: Review and simplified model

Journal of Bridge Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 226-237

  Albrecht, Pedro ^a   Lenwari, Akhrawat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Bridges; Cracking; Fatigue; Specification; Steel

Indexed keywords

BILINEAR EQUATIONS; CRACKING; FATIGUE; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATES; FATIGUE LIFE; FATIGUE LIMIT; FATIGUE STRENGTH; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MINIMUM STRESS; NUMBER OF CYCLES; NUMBER OF CYCLES TO FAILURE; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SINGLE EQUATION; STRESS RANGE; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; STRUCTURAL STEELS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CRACKS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; SPECIFICATIONS; STEEL; STEEL CONSTRUCTION;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 67651046500     PISSN: 10840702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2009)14:4(226)     Document Type: Article

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