Two-parameter nominal stress approach

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 339-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Qiao
Author(s):  
Majid Anvari ◽  
Øyvind Fagnastøl ◽  
Bernt J. Leira

Applicability of different approaches, i.e. nominal stress-, structural hot spot- and effective notch stress approach, for fatigue assessment of welded structures has been discussed. The effective notch stress approach was validated for a cruciform fillet welded and fully penetration welded joint, according to DNV guideline [1]. The same fillet welded joint was further investigated for varying weld sizes. The results show that with changing weld size, there are considerable differences between calculated stresses, and specially calculated fatigue lives, when comparing with nominal stress approach. Further investigations revealed that there is a nonlinear relation between effective notch stress and weld sizes, while comparison of the notch stress and nominal stress approaches indicate that a linear relation is to be expected. Based on the established methodology for the cruciform joint, another joint, i.e. a knee plate located in a horizontal brace of a drilling vessel, was assessed for weld root fatigue. Based on the proposed equations and the linear relation found between the nominal- and the notch stress S-N curves, a weld size providing a longer fatigue life at the weld root, rather than that at the toe, was proposed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas TARAS ◽  
Harald UNTERWEGER

The fatigue design life of welded joints in steel structures is increasingly assessed by using numerical models and methods, such as the structural (hot-spot) stress method and the effective notch stress method. When compared to the classical design approach using nominal stress S-N design curves, these methods offer the advantage of flexibility and a wider scope of application. However, a number of questions arise when these methods are used to assess geometrically "imperfect" welded joints, such as joints with plate misalignments or excessive weld convexity or concavity. In these cases, the classical S-N curves are known to cover imperfections up to the common tolerance classes for fatigue-prone welded joints (e.g. in accordance with ISO 5817 class B). For the numerical methods, differing and conflicting recommendations exist on how to account for the geometric imperfections in the welded joints, with little or no background to these recommendations available. In this paper, a study is presented in which two standard welded joints (butt welds between plates of equal and unequal thickness; T-joints with fillet welds) are analysed with the help of the structural (hot-spot) stress and the effective notch stress approach, considering various levels of geometric imperfection up to the tolerance limits, and the resulting fatigue life predictions are compared to test results from the literature and the nominal stress approach predictions. Since the nominal stress approach curves are based on reliable statistical data and desired survival probabilities for these known, standard cases, this methodology allows one to determine the correct application of the numerical methods to cases with geometric imperfections. This information may be used for a pertinent refinement of design recommendations for these methods, as well as for cases where these methods are applied to fitness-for-purpose assessments - e.g. because the nominal stress approach is not applicable.


Author(s):  
Chun Lu ◽  
Jiliang Mo ◽  
Hongqin Liang

Welded joints are widely employed in engineering field and they are always the starting points of fatigue damage. Because of the unfavorable material and geometry characters, as well as initial welding defects, the fatigue damage evaluation of welded joints is an important and troublesome issue for engineers. In this article, multiaxial fatigue space theory proposed by the first author for smooth specimens is extended for the fatigue damage assessment of welded joints, by adopting nominal stress approach. The fatigue test data with different materials, loading paths, and welded joints geometries are used to validate the capability of this theory. The result indicates a strong parallelization between predicted life and experimental life, with a favorable prediction error and beneficial error distribution. It can be concluded that multiaxial fatigue space theory is a useful method for fatigue damage assessment of welded joints with the help of nominal stress approach.


1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Chalonge

Several years ago a three-parameter system of stellar classification has been proposed (1, 2), for the early-type stars (O-G): it was an improvement on the two-parameter system described by Barbier and Chalonge (3).


2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit Antonides ◽  
Sophia R. Wunderink

Summary: Different shapes of individual subjective discount functions were compared using real measures of willingness to accept future monetary outcomes in an experiment. The two-parameter hyperbolic discount function described the data better than three alternative one-parameter discount functions. However, the hyperbolic discount functions did not explain the common difference effect better than the classical discount function. Discount functions were also estimated from survey data of Dutch households who reported their willingness to postpone positive and negative amounts. Future positive amounts were discounted more than future negative amounts and smaller amounts were discounted more than larger amounts. Furthermore, younger people discounted more than older people. Finally, discount functions were used in explaining consumers' willingness to pay for an energy-saving durable good. In this case, the two-parameter discount model could not be estimated and the one-parameter models did not differ significantly in explaining the data.


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