Description

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Local approaches to fatigue assessment are used to predict the structural durability of welded joints, to optimise their design and to evaluate unforeseen joint failures. This standard work provides a systematic survey of the principles and practical applications of the various methods. It covers the hot spot structural stress approach to fatigue in general, the notch stress and notch strain approach to crack initiation and the fracture mechanics approach to crack propagation. Seam-welded and spot-welded joints in structural steels and aluminium alloys are also considered.This completely reworked second edition takes into account the tremendous progress in understanding and applying local approaches which has been achieved in the last decade. It is a standard reference for designers, structural analysts and testing engineers who are responsible for the fatigue-resistant in-service behaviour of welded structures.

About the Author

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Dieter Radaj is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Braunschweig Technical University, Germany.

Cetin Morris Sonsino is Professor of Structural Durability at both Darmstadt University of Technology and Saarland University, Germany. He is also Deputy Head of Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability at Darmstadt.

Wolfgang Fricke is Professor of Ship Structural Design and Analysis at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany.