Stress concentration factors and fatigue behaviour of welded thin-walled CHS-SHS T-joints under in-plane bending

Engineering Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1861-1875

  Mashiri, Fidelis Rutendo ^a   Zhao, Xiao Ling ^a   Grundy, Paul ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Hollow section joint; Hot spot stress; Stress concentration; Surface crack; Through thickness crack

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACK INITIATION; EXTRAPOLATION; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRAIN RATE; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

SQUARE HOLLOW SECTION (SHS) CHORDS; STRESS CONCENTRATION FACTORS (SCF); STRESS DISTRIBUTIONS; T-JOINTS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

FATIGUE ANALYSIS;

EID: 7744245266     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.06.010     Document Type: Article

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