Fatigue assessment of welded joints using critical distance and other methods

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-142

  Crupi, G ^a,b   Crupi, V ^a,b   Guglielmino, E ^a   Taylor, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Fracture mechanics; Stress concentrations; Weld fatigue

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PROBLEM SOLVING; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

CRACK MODELLING METHOD; CRITICAL DISTANCE METHODS (CDM);

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

FATIGUE;

EID: 7444229237     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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