Description of Fatigue Characteristics for Welded Joints in FITNET Procedures – Selected Issues

Abstract:

Discontinuity of geometrical and material properties of welded joints makes it difficult to describe unequivocally the fatigue properties of these joints. The effect of the above mentioned difficulties is that in FITNET procedures, in 1a path of a fatigue module, these properties are described by means of a fatigue diagrams in the form of fatigue curves S-N (Wöhler curves), based on a characteristic parameter - class FAD, and slope factor m = const. FITNET procedures contain a table of elementary nodes (welded joints), which are matched by particular diagrams of appropriate FAD classes.A problem occurs when in a set of elements there is no element with properties similar to the element which is being calculated.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 250)
• Pages: 217-222
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.250.217
• Online since: April 2016
• Authors: Grzegorz Szala*
• Keywords: Diversified Structures, Fatique, FITNET Procedures

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