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SIMULATED NORTH SEA SPECTRUM FATIGUE ON WELDED STEEL IN FLOWING SEA WATER

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1983
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Reverse bend, uniform stress beam specimens of ABS DH-32 steel were subjected to fatigue cycles of randomly generated amplitude in a sea water environment to determine the effect of narrow band spectrum loading on cycles to failure. The loading spectrum was the C/12/20 spectrum, developed at the National Engineering Laboratory in Scotland to simulate the severe conditions of the North Sea. Some misinformation which has been published by NEL and other& regarding ~he C/12/20 spectrum is addressed. A number ot means for presenting random amplitude cycles to failure data in the form of an SN plot are discussed. A means for taking into account fatigue test cycling rate in failure predictions is proposed, and the results of the freely corroding specimens of this investigation conform to the proposed technique. The random amplitude specimens exhibited reduced fatigue lives compared with similar specimens of an earlier constant amplitude investigation.
Title: SIMULATED NORTH SEA SPECTRUM FATIGUE ON WELDED STEEL IN FLOWING SEA WATER.
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Name(s): Clark, A. M.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Hartt, William H., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1983
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 152 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Reverse bend, uniform stress beam specimens of ABS DH-32 steel were subjected to fatigue cycles of randomly generated amplitude in a sea water environment to determine the effect of narrow band spectrum loading on cycles to failure. The loading spectrum was the C/12/20 spectrum, developed at the National Engineering Laboratory in Scotland to simulate the severe conditions of the North Sea. Some misinformation which has been published by NEL and other& regarding ~he C/12/20 spectrum is addressed. A number ot means for presenting random amplitude cycles to failure data in the form of an SN plot are discussed. A means for taking into account fatigue test cycling rate in failure predictions is proposed, and the results of the freely corroding specimens of this investigation conform to the proposed technique. The random amplitude specimens exhibited reduced fatigue lives compared with similar specimens of an earlier constant amplitude investigation.
Identifier: 14153 (digitool), FADT14153 (IID), fau:10965 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.E.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1983.
Subject(s): Steel--Fatigue
Steel--Stress corrosion
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