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Fatigue Life Prediction of Non-Load-Carrying Cruciform Welded Joint using Master S-N Curve based on Structural Stress Approach

구조응력기반 마스터 피로 선도를 이용한 하중 비전달형 십자 필렛 용접조인트의 피로예측

  • Kwak, Si-Young (e-Design Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology(Robotics&Virtual Engineering, University of Science and Technology))
  • 곽시영 (사이버설계그룹 한국생산기술연구원(로봇틱스 및 가상공학과 과학기술연합대학원대학교))
  • Received : 2015.12.01
  • Accepted : 2015.12.16
  • Published : 2015.12.30

Abstract

Welding process is of importance to assemble products or structures, but also the process is structural weakness due to stress concentration in welding joint. The fatigue design of welded joint requires time & labor consuming fatigue test because the fatigue life is various according to the depth of joint, joint type and load type etc. In fatigue design codes, they guide to classify welding joints with their shape( BS7608, IIW Documents) and provide fatigue assessment information. In terms of numerical method for fatigue analysis, it is also difficult to decide the stress peak in joint because of mesh sensitivity which means that stress value is varies with element type or size on stress concentration zone. Hot-spot method is used generally, but Battelle of United States proposed Master S-N Curve based on structural stresses converted by mechanical equilibrium theory. In this research, we extracted master S-N curve from Battelle's fatigue test DB including test data of various welding joints to apply on Non-Load-Carrying cruciform Joint. Comparing fatigue results between the case of using normal stress and case of structural stress cor the cruciform Joint, The suggested Battelle method showed successive results.

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