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Lecture 12.8 : Basic Fatigue Design Concepts in Eurocode3


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1. INTRODUCTION

2. PRACTICAL IMPLICATION OF DESIGN CRITERIA

2.1 Main Factors Affecting the Fatigue Strength

2.2 Fatigue Failure Criteria

2.3 Design Stresses for Fatigue Assessment

3. DESIGN STRESS SPECTRUM

3.1 Stress History

3.2 Stress Histogram

4. FATIGUE DESIGN CURVES CLASSIFICATION CONCEPT

5. FATIGUE TEST RESULTS

6. CUMULATIVE DAMAGE RULE, EQUIVALENT STRESS RANGE CONCEPT

6.1 Palmgren-Miner Summation

6.2 Equivalent Stress Range

6.3 Equivalent Stress Range for an S-N Curve with a double Slopes Constant

7. RESIDUAL STRESS EFFECT

8. CONCLUDING SUMMARY

9. REFERENCES