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- plate to form a moment resistant connection are used in the road transport and agricultural industry to manufacture
- equipment and other structural systems. Fatigue design of these joints is not available in current standards. An
- understanding of the stress concentrations and failure in these connections is therefore necessary as a step towards
- understanding the fatigue behaviour of these connections. Stress concentration factors (SCFs) of welded thin-walled
- (t<4mm) circular hollow section (CHS)-to-plate T-joints are determined at different locations along the weld toes on the
- tubular brace. The distribution of SCFs along the weld toes shows that the highest SCF occurs at the weld toes in the
- circular brace at the 0o line. The ratio of the end of test fatigue life (N4) to the through thickness fatigue life (N3) in the thin CHS-Plate T-joints is found to fall within the range of N4/N3 found in previous research of both thick and thin-walled joints. Surface crack growth monitoring is used to obtain an approximation of the length of surface crack at the point of occurrence of a through thickness crack. The relationship between surface crack length and the occurrence of a through thickness crack is important in that it can be used as a measure of the criticality of a surface crack during structural health monitoring of equipment or structures." name="eprints.abstract" />
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- understanding of the stress concentrations and failure in these connections is therefore necessary as a step towards
- understanding the fatigue behaviour of these connections. Stress concentration factors (SCFs) of welded thin-walled
- (t<4mm) circular hollow section (CHS)-to-plate T-joints are determined at different locations along the weld toes on the
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- <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Thin circular hollow section-to-plate T-joints: stress concentration factors and fatigue failure under in-plane bending</h1>
- <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Mashiri, F.R</span> and <span class="person_name">Zhao, X.L.</span> (2006) <xhtml:em>Thin circular hollow section-to-plate T-joints: stress concentration factors and fatigue failure under in-plane bending.</xhtml:em> Thin-Walled Structures, 44 (2). pp. 159-169. ISSN 0263-8231</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2604/1/MashiriZhao_SCF_CHS-Plate_TWS_44-2_2006.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2604/1/MashiriZhao_SCF_CHS-Plate_TWS_44-2_2006.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />260Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input accept-charset="utf-8" value="3412" name="docid" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2006.02.003">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2006.02.003</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Welded thin-walled (t<4mm) tube-to-plate T-joints made up of cold-formed circular hollow sections welded onto a
- plate to form a moment resistant connection are used in the road transport and agricultural industry to manufacture
- equipment and other structural systems. Fatigue design of these joints is not available in current standards. An
- understanding of the stress concentrations and failure in these connections is therefore necessary as a step towards
- understanding the fatigue behaviour of these connections. Stress concentration factors (SCFs) of welded thin-walled
- (t<4mm) circular hollow section (CHS)-to-plate T-joints are determined at different locations along the weld toes on the
- tubular brace. The distribution of SCFs along the weld toes shows that the highest SCF occurs at the weld toes in the
- circular brace at the 0o line. The ratio of the end of test fatigue life (N4) to the through thickness fatigue life (N3) in the thin CHS-Plate T-joints is found to fall within the range of N4/N3 found in previous research of both thick and thin-walled joints. Surface crack growth monitoring is used to obtain an approximation of the length of surface crack at the point of occurrence of a through thickness crack. The relationship between surface crack length and the occurrence of a through thickness crack is important in that it can be used as a measure of the criticality of a surface crack during structural health monitoring of equipment or structures.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">The definitive version is available at http://www.sciencedirect.com
- </td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Fatigue; Circular hollow section; Hot spots; Stress concentration factor; Failure
- </td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/290801.html">290000 Engineering and Technology > 290800 Civil Engineering > 290801 Structural Engineering</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2604</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Dr Fidelis R. Mashiri</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">04 Dec 2007 15:28</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2604;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2604">item control page</a></p>
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