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Fatigue behavior of transverse stiffener subjected to variable amplitude loading

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The variable amplitude fatigue data were statistically analyzed to determine the effect of spectrum type for multiple comparisons between means. According to the results, the differences between the fatigue lives of the specimens cycled with the ST and MT spectra were not significant at either equivalent stress range. The stress ratio has no significant effect on variable amplitude fatigue strength unlike the constant amplitude fatigue. Therefore, all ST and MT data were combined and analyzed as one set of variable amplitude fatigue data regardless of stress ratio. In comparison with the constant amplitude mean S-N line, the data points fell on both sides of the line atf r =94 N/mm2, to the right at 80 N/mm2 with one exception, and entirely to the right at 63 N/mm2. And, the equivalent stress range model based on the mean S-N line and mean fatigue limit overestimates the fatigue strength in comparison of the constant and variable amplitude fatigue data with the predicted mean S-N curves for ST spectrum loading.

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  1. HANARO Applications Research, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang-Ik Woo (Member, Post-Doctoral Researcher)

  2. Department of Structural System & Computer Aided Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheong-Ju, Korea

    Kyoung-Sup Jung (Member, Professor)

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.

    Pedro Albrecht (Professor)

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The manuscript for this paper was submitted for review on March 25, 2002.

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Woo, SI., Jung, KS. & Albrecht, P. Fatigue behavior of transverse stiffener subjected to variable amplitude loading. KSCE J Civ Eng 6, 151–160 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02829132

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