This paper presents a fatigue design method for plug and ring type gas welded joints, which incorporates welding residual
stress effects. A non-linear finite element analysis (FEA) was first performed to simulate the gas welding process. The numerically
predicted residual stresses of the gas welds were then compared to experimental results measured using a hole drilling method.
In order to evaluate the fatigue strength of the plug and ring type gas welded joints, a stress amplitude (σa)R taling the welding residual stress of the gas weld into account was introduced and is based on a modified Goodman equation
incorporating the effect of the residual stress. Using the stress amplitude (σa)R, the ΔP-Nf relations obtained from fatigue tests for plug and ring type gas welded joints having various dimensions and shapes were
systematically rearranged into (σa)R-Nf relations. It was found that the proposed stress amplitude (σa)R could provide a systematic and reasonable fatigue design criterion for the plug and ring type gas welded joints. 相似文献
Pitting corrosion is typical corrosion observed on coated hold frames of bulk carriers which exclusively carry coal and iron ore. In order to secure the safety of these types of bulk carriers, it is important to understand the effect of pitting corrosion on local strength of hold frames.
In order to investigate this effect, a series of 4- and 3-point bend tests on structural models which consist of web, shell and face plates has been carried out. Artificial pitting was created on the web plate to simulate pitting. In the 4-point bend tests, two equal concentrated loads have been applied vertically at the one-third points of simply supported models so that compression load due to bending would act on the face plate. In this testing condition, lateral-distortional buckling occurred before reaching the ultimate strength and local buckling of the face plate was observed after reaching the ultimate strength. The effect of web plate pitting on the lateral-distortional buckling strength was found to be small but the ultimate strength decreases with increase in the degree of pitting intensity. In the 3-point bend tests, concentrated load has been applied vertically at the center of simply supported models so that compression load due to bending would act on the face plate. In this testing condition, local face buckling occurred just after reaching the ultimate strength. The ultimate strength is found to be decreasing with increase in the degree of pitting intensity.
A series of non-linear FE analyses has been performed to simulate the deformation behavior observed in the tests. It has been revealed that even in the case of randomly distributed pitting corrosion the ultimate strength of the structural models was almost the same as that of the structural models with uniform corrosion corresponding to the average thickness loss. 相似文献