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Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1998), “Reliability Based Fatigue Design of Maintaned Welded Joints in the Side Shell of Tankers”, Proceedings of the Fatigue Design ’98 Conference, Vol.1, pp. 25-38
The present work deals with the application of reliability based techniques to the design welded joints subjected to the process of crack growth and repair. A formulation is presented for the assessment of the fatigue damage and of the reliability of the side shell os a ship hull structure. The potential cracks are considered to occur in the side shell, in the connections between longitudinal stiffeners and transverse web frames. The model accounts for the crack growth process applying linear elastic fracture mechanics. The long-term stress range acting on the elements is defined as a function of the local transverse pressure of internal cargo and outsidewater, combined with the stresses resulting from the longitudinal bending of the hull namely the a combination of horizontal and vertical bending moments. The fatigue reliability is predicted by a time variant formulation and the effects of maintenance actions in the reliability assessment are shown.
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