Fatigue Design of Steel and Composite Structures.

PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS SYMBOLOGY TERMINOLOGY 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Basis of fatigue design in steel structures 1.2 Damage equivalent factor concept 1.3 Codes of Practice 1.4 Description of the structures used in the worked examples 2 APPLICATION RANGE AND LIMITATIONS 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Materials 2.3 Corrosion 2.4 Temperature 2.5 Loading rate 2.6 Limiting stress ranges 3 DETERMINATION OF STRESSES AND STRESS RANGES 3.1 Fatigue loads 3.2 Damage equivalent factors 3.3 Calculation of stresses 3.4 Modified nominal stresses and concentration factors 3.5 Geometric stresses (hot spot stresses) 3.6 Stresses in orthotropic decks 3.7 Calculation of stress ranges 3.8 Modified Nominal stress ranges 3.9 Geometric stress ranges 4 FATIGUE STRENGTH 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Fatigue detail tables 4.3 Determination of fatigue strength or life by testing 5 RELIABILITY AND VERIFICATION 5.1 Generalities 5.2 Strategies 5.3 Partial factors 5.4 Verification 6 BRITTLE FRACTURE 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Steel quality 6.3 Relationship between different fracture toughness test results 6.4 Fracture concept in EN 1993-1-10 6.5 Standardisation of choice of material: maximum allowable thicknesses REFERENCES ANNEX A STANDARDS FOR STEEL CONSTRUCTION ANNEX B FATIGUE DETAIL TABLES WITH COMMENTARY ANNEX C MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE THICKNESSES TABLES