Fracture and fatigue of welded joints and structures /

The failure of any welded joint is at best inconvenient and at worst can lead to catastrophic accidents. Fracture and fatigue of welded joints and structures analyses the processes and causes of fracture and fatigue, focusing on how the failure of welded joints and structures can be predicted and mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: MacDonald, K. A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : Woodhead Pub., 2011.
Series:Woodhead Publishing in materials.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 Analysing fracture of welded joints and structures: Constraint-based fracture mechanics in predicting the failure of welded joints
  • Constraint fracture mechanics: test methods
  • Fracture assessment methods for welded structures. Part 2 Analysing fatigue of welded joints and structures: Fatigue strength assessment of local stresses in welded joints
  • Improving weld class systems in assessing the fatigue life of different welded joint designs
  • Fatigue design rules for welded structures
  • Fatigue assessment methods for variable amplitude loading of welded structures
  • Reliability aspects in fatigue design of welded structure using selected local approaches: the example of k-nodes for offshore costructions
  • Assessing residual stresses in predicting the service life of welded structures
  • Fatigue strength improvement methods.