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Assessment of multiaxial fatigue behaviour of welded joints under combined bending and torsion by application of a fictitious notch radius

2004

Abstract A major problem in the assessment of the multiaxial fatigue behaviour in welded joints is the determination of local notch stresses, since the real local radii in most cases are not known. This can be circumvented by introducing a fictitious notch radius, according to Neuber and Radaj. The calculations of local equivalent stress amplitudes for welded joints (tube–tube and flange–tube) under pure bending, pure torsion and combined in- and out-of-phase bending with torsion can then be carried out by stress-based and strain energy density-based criteria. Among the investigated methods, the most reliable results are obtained with the effective equivalent stress hypothesis, an integral …