Download or read book Statistical Approach to Fatigue Life Prediction of Spot Welds written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fatigue Life Analyses of Welded Structures written by Tom Lassen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoiding or controlling fatigue damage is a major issue in the design and inspection of welded structures subjected to dynamic loading. Life predictions are usually used for safe life analysis, i.e. for verifying that it is very unlikely that fatigue damage will occur during the target service life of a structure. Damage tolerance analysis is used for predicting the behavior of a fatigue crack and for planning of in-service scheduled inspections. It should be a high probability that any cracks appearing are detected and repaired before they become critical. In both safe life analysis and the damage tolerance analysis there may be large uncertainties involved that have to be treated in a logical and consistent manner by stochastic modeling. This book focuses on fatigue life predictions and damage tolerance analysis of welded joints and is divided into three parts. The first part outlines the common practice used for safe life and damage tolerance analysis with reference to rules and regulations. The second part emphasises stochastic modeling and decision-making under uncertainty, while the final part is devoted to recent advances within fatigue research on welded joints. Industrial examples that are included are mainly dealing with offshore steel structures. Spreadsheets which accompany the book give the reader the possibility for hands-on experience of fatigue life predictions, crack growth analysis and inspection planning. As such, these different areas will be of use to engineers and researchers.

Download or read book Fatigue Testing and Analysis written by Yung-Li Lee and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatigue Testing and Analysis: Theory and Practice presents the latest, proven techniques for fatigue data acquisition, data analysis, and test planning and practice. More specifically, it covers the most comprehensive methods to capture the component load, to characterize the scatter of product fatigue resistance and loading, to perform the fatigue damage assessment of a product, and to develop an accelerated life test plan for reliability target demonstration. This book is most useful for test and design engineers in the ground vehicle industry. Fatigue Testing and Analysis introduces the methods to account for variability of loads and statistical fatigue properties that are useful for further probabilistic fatigue analysis. The text incorporates and demonstrates approaches that account for randomness of loading and materials, and covers the applications and demonstrations of both linear and double-linear damage rules. The reader will benefit from summaries of load transducer designs and data acquisition techniques, applications of both linear and non-linear damage rules and methods, and techniques to determine the statistical fatigue properties for the nominal stress-life and the local strain-life methods. Covers the useful techniques for component load measurement and data acquisition, fatigue properties determination, fatigue analysis, and accelerated life test criteria development, and, most importantly, test plans for reliability demonstrations Written from a practical point of view, based on the authors' industrial and academic experience in automotive engineering design Extensive practical examples are used to illustrate the main concepts in all chapters

Download or read book Fatigue Life Predicition of Resistance Spot Welds Under Variable Amplitude Loads written by N. Pan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work presented here builds on the practical and effective spot weld fatigue life prediction method, the structural stress method (SSM), that was developed recently [1]. Constant amplitude loading tests for various spot weld joint configurations have been conducted and the SSM has been shown to accurately predict fatigue life [1].

Download or read book Best Practice Guideline for Statistical Analyses of Fatigue Results written by Guy Parmentier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive guidance for the use of sound statistical methods and for the evaluation of fatigue data of welded components and structures obtained under constant amplitude loading and used to produce S-N curves. Recommendations for analyzing fatigue data are available, although they do not deal with all the statistical treatments that may be required to utilize fatigue test results, and none of them offers specific guidelines for analyzing fatigue data obtained from tests on welded specimens. For an easy use, working sheets are provided to assist in the proper statistical assessment of experimental fatigue data concerning practical problems giving the procedure and a numerical application as illustration.

Download or read book Development of Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Spot Welded Joints of Mixed Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spot-welded joints are widely employed in the construction of vehicle structures. Recently, due to the strategies for minimizing the fuel consumption and vehicle emissions, more and more applications of lightweight materials, such as aluminum (Al) alloys, are employed in spot-welded joints. Hence, a universal and simple fatigue life prediction method is needed for conventional steel spot-welded joints as well as mixed materials spot-welded joints. In this study, a new notch stress approach is developed for fatigue life evaluation of the spot-welded joint. The idea of this method originates from Rupp's structural stress method, which has been successfully used in automotive industry. The structural stress method is simple enough, but there are nine parameters needed to be adjusted for each new experimental data. Thus, the primary goal of the new approach is to eliminate the troublesome parameters. Stress intensity factors SIFs and stress concentration factors are introduced to solve this issue. Then, having considered the boundary conditions and crack propagation effects, some correction factors are applied to the new notch stress approach in this study. Finally, three groups of spot weld fatigue data including steel, aluminum alloys and their combination are processed with the new notch stress approach for validation. Compared with Rupp's structural stress method, distinct improvements are presented in this study.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Fracture Fatigue and Wear written by Magd Abdel Wahab and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings gather a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Fracture Fatigue and Wear (FFW 2020), held as a virtual conference on 26–27 August 2020. The contributions, prepared by international scientists and engineers, cover the latest advances in and innovative applications of fracture mechanics, fatigue of materials, tribology, and wear of materials. In addition, they discuss industrial applications and cover theoretical and analytical methods, numerical simulations and experimental techniques. The book is intended for academics, including graduate students and researchers, as well as industrial practitioners working in the areas of fracture fatigue and wear.

Download or read book Fatigue Assessment of Welded Joints by Local Approaches written by Dieter Radaj and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Completely reworked second edition of a standard work providing a systematic survey of the principles and practical applications of the various methods 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. Written by a distinguished team of authors

Download or read book Statistical Analysis of Fatigue Data written by R. E. Little and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1981 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly assumed in analysing fatigue data that there is a definite functional relationship between life in number of cycles and stress level. However, as has been pointed out several times (1, 2), an examination of the data shows considerable scatter. Even with carefully prepared smooth specimens, all from the same heat of steel, treated in the same manner and tested in the same laboratory, a range of 2 to 1 in number of cycles for failure at the same stress level is normal (1) and a range of 10 to 1 is not unusual (2). If the specimens are tested by different laboratories, slightly varying techniques will introduce further scatter (3).

Download or read book Fatigue and Fracture of Weldments written by Uwe Zerbst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and thorough guide to those readers who are lost in the often-confusing context of weld fatigue. It presents straightforward information on the fracture mechanics and material background of weld fatigue, starting with fatigue crack initiation and short cracks, before moving on to long cracks, crack closure, crack growth and threshold, residual stress, stress concentration, the stress intensity factor, J-integral, multiple cracks, weld geometries and defects, microstructural parameters including HAZ, and cyclic stress-strain behavior. The book treats all of these essential and mutually interacting parameters using a unique form of analysis.

Download or read book Life Prediction of Spot welds written by John Andrew Newman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Data Processing Procedure for Fatigue Life Prediction of Spot Welded Joints Using a Structural Stress Method written by Hong-Tae Kang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structural stress method is widely used in fatigue-life prediction of various welded joints in vehicle structures because this method is less dependent on mesh sizes in finite-element models. However, there are several parameters that define the structural stress, and extensive analysis is required to obtain an optimum structural-stress versus fatigue-life curve of the joints. This paper establishes a data-processing procedure for fatigue-life prediction of spot-welded joints using a structural stress method. The structural stress method used in this study is influenced by sheet thicknesses, joint dimensions, and stress types. These influencing parameters are optimized by a nonlinear, generalized, reduced-gradient solver. Previous fatigue test data from the Auto/Steel Partnership is reanalyzed using this proposed optimization method, and the degree of scatter in the reproduced master curve is found to be reduced compared to past results with default parameters. The estimated specimen life using this procedure correlates well with the actual life observed in the laboratory.

Download or read book A Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Tensile shear Spot Welds written by Pei-Chung Wang and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advances in Fatigue Lifetime Predictive Techniques written by Michael R. Mitchell and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1992 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven papers from fatigue researchers and practitioners review in detail recent progress in the development of methods to predict fatigue performance of materials and structures and to assess the extent to which these new methods are finding their way into practice. The papers, from the ASTM

Download or read book Failure Mechanisms of Advanced Welding Processes written by X Sun and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many new, or relatively new, welding processes such as friction stir welding, resistance spot welding and laser welding are being increasingly adopted to replace or improve on traditional welding techniques. Before advanced welding techniques are employed, their potential failure mechanisms should be well understood and their suitability for welding particular metals and alloys in different situations should be assessed. Failure mechanisms of advanced welding processes provides a critical analysis of advanced welding techniques and their potential failure mechanisms. The book contains chapters on the following topics: Mechanics modelling of spot welds under general loading conditions and applications to fatigue life predictions, Resistance spot weld failure mode and weld performance for aluminium alloys, dual phase steels and TRIP steels, Fatigue behaviour of spot welded joints in steel sheets, Non-destructive evaluation of spot weld quality, Solid state joining - fundamentals of friction stir welding, Failure mechanisms in friction stir welds, Microstructure characteristics and mechanical properties of laser weld bonding of magnesium alloy to aluminium alloy, Fatigue in laser welds, Weld metal ductility and its influence on formability of tailor welded blanks, Joining of lightweight materials using reactive nanofoils, and Fatigue life prediction and improvements for MIG welded advanced high strength steel weldments. With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, Failure mechanisms of advanced welding processes is a standard reference text for anyone working in welding and the automotive, shipbuilding, oil and gas and other metal fabrication industries who use modern and advanced welding processes. Provides a critical analysis of advanced welding techniques and their potential failure mechanisms Experts in the field survey a range of welding processes and examine reactions under various types of loading conditions Examines the current state of fatigue life prediction of welded materials and structures in the context of spot welded joints and non-destructive evaluation of quality

Download or read book A Stress Analysis Method for Fatigue Life Prediction of Welded Structures written by Rakesh Kumar Goyal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stress Determination for Fatigue Analysis of Welded Components written by E. Niemi and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 1995-04-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report introduces definitions of the terminology relevant to stress determination for fatigue analysis of welded components. The various stress concentrations, stress categories and fatigue analysis methods are defined. Fatigue analysis methods considered are nominal stress, hot spot stress, notch stress, notch strain and fracture mechanics approaches. The report also contains comprehensive recommendations concerning the application of finite element methods and experimental methods for stress determination. It is intended for fatigue design of common welded structures, such as cranes, excavators, vehicle frames, bridges, ship hulls, offshore structures etc. fabricated from materials at least 3mm thick. In general, attention is focused on weld details which give rise to fatigue cracking from the surface, notably from the weld toe.