Cumulative damage of welded joints

• Main Author: Gurney, Tim.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, Florida ; Cambridge, England : CRC Press : Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2006.
• Series: Woodhead Publishing in materials.
• Subjects: Welded joints > Fatigue.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781845691035; 9781855739383
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (457 pages) : illustrations.

Fatigue is a mechanism of failure which involves the formation and growth of cracks under the action of repeated stresses. Ultimately, a crack may propagate to such an extent that total fracture of the member may occur. To avoid fatigue it is essential to design the structure with inherent fatigue s...