Low-cycle fatigue of steel structures. An experimental investigation with full scale ship structural components ¹²

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Nibbering, J.J.W. | van Lint, J.

Note: [1] Report no. 109 of the Ship Structures Laboratory Delft.

Note: [2] Publication of the Netherlands Ship Research Centre TNO.

Abstract: Low-cycle fatigue-tests with full scale structural specimens have been carried out in the Ship Structures Laboratory at Delft on a 600-ton tension-compression machine. The specimens represented the interconnection of longitudinal frames at transverse bulkheads. Most were of the interrupted type and were constructed in mild steel. A small number of specimens made of a higher-strength steel was also available. Axial cyclic loading was applied (Pmin/Pmax=−(1/(2). The results are given for 0, 100 and 500 mm2 crack-area as a function of nominal, local and peak-stresses.

DOI: 10.3233/ISP-1966-1314501

Journal: International Shipbuilding Progress, vol. 13, no. 145, pp. 285-302, 1966