Towards a Unified Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Marine Structures

• Main Authors: Cui, Weicheng (Author), Huang, Xiaoping (Author), Wang, Fang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Structural mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Building construction.; Structural materials.; Metals.; Offshore Engineering.; Structural Mechanics.; Structural Materials.; Mechanical Engineering.; Metallic Materials.

In order to apply the damage tolerance design philosophy to design marine structures, accurate prediction of fatigue crack growth under service conditions is required. Now, more and more people have realized that only a fatigue life prediction method based on fatigue crack propagation (FCP) theory h...

Table of Contents:

• Current understanding of fatigue mechanisms of metals
• Description of fatigue loading
• General procedure for a unified fatigue life prediction (UFLP) method for marine structures
• Technical problems to be resolved for developing a UFLP
• Some applications & demonstrations of UFLP
• Code development based on UFLP for marine structures.