Publications

Chakarov, K., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2006), “Analysis of Stress Concentration Factors of an Imperfect Welded Deck Structure”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Marine Sciences and Technologies (Black Sea´06), 25-27 September, Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 28-35

This work analyses a longitudinally stiffened welded deck of a containership and evaluates the hot spot stress distributions and stress concentration factors that result from different types of imperfections. The hot spot stresses and the stress concentration factors are defined at the places adjacent to the transverse weld accounting for different imperfections. Numerous calculations are performed representing realistic condition of imperfections and various stress concentration factors are established as a function of the governing parameters.

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