Shipbuilding in blocks, as being usual on all larger shipyards, requires that the blocks will finally be welded together manually or semi-automatically, that is, with butt-welds in transverse direction that have to withstand relatively high dynamical loads. Modern shipbuilding aims at lightweight construction with thin plates that may have a plate thickness down to 4 mm. Previous investigations showed that manually produced butt-welds in such thin structures did not reach the calculated fatigue life as required in the rules. Up to the present, this problem has not yet been solved, and it is questioned if all influence factors on the fatigue behaviour of real structures are correctly considered as no damage cases at butt joints that are known yet. In the investigation described here, results from small-scale specimens tested with cyclic loads will be transferred to large components, considering the effects of recorded pre-deformations induced by welding as well as measured differences in residual stresses between small-scale specimens and large components, thus clarifying how far for instance a detrimental stress ratio should be taken into account by the rules for thin plates.


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    Title :

    Consideration of influence factors between small-scale specimens and large components on the fatigue strength of thin-plated block joints in shipbuilding


    Additional title:

    Betrachtung der Einflussfaktoren zwischen kleinen Proben und großen Komponenten auf die Ermüdungsfestigkeit dünnplattierter Bauteile im Schiffbau


    Contributors:
    Fricke, W. (author) / Feltz, O. (author)


    Publication date :

    2013


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 20 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 11 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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