REVIEW ARTICLE
Residual Static Strength of Tubular T-Joints with Fatigue Surface Cracks
Sheng-zhi Song1, Jian-Jun Wei*, 2
1 Department of Construction Engineering, Changzhou Institute of Engineering Technology, 213164, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
2 R&D Centre of Jiangsu Construction Safety and Disaster Mitigation, Jiangsu Jianzhu Institute, Xuzhou, 221116, China
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 1
Last Page: 6
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-9-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01509010001
Article History:
Received Date: 8/1/2015Revision Received Date: 15/1/2015
Acceptance Date: 16/1/2015
Electronic publication date: 10/2/2015
Collection year: 2015
© 2015 Wei and Song
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
To study the influence of surface fatigue cracks on the static strength of circular tubular T-joints, experimental tests on four full-scale circular tubular T-joints are carried out. Firstly, surface fatigue cracks are prefabricated by fatigue test in three circular tubular T-joints. Thereafter, experimental tests on the static strength of all the circular tubular T-joints with and without fatigue cracks under axial tension are carried out. Through the comparative analysis, the influences of the fatigue crack on the failure mode and the static strength of circular tubular T-joints are concluded.
Keywords: Experimental study, fatigue surface cracks, residual static strength, tubular T-joint.