Fatigue Design of Marine Structures

This is a theoretical and practical guide for fatigue design of marine structures including sailing ships and offshore oil structures.

Inge Lotsberg (Author)

9781107121331, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 April 2016

504 pages, 308 b/w illus. 56 tables 47 exercises
26.1 x 18.3 x 3 cm, 1.32 kg

'… contains very comprehensive information and a large number of interesting examples of fatigue assessments particularly of welded joints … It is written well and with great care and illustrated by numerous figures and diagrams. The reader finds the experience and personal views of the author throughout the book. … a very important and valuable contribution in the quite complex field of fatigue design which should be found in all bookshelfs or computers of structural engineers of marine structures.' Wolfgang Fricke, Marine Structures

Fatigue Design of Marine Structures provides students and professionals with a theoretical and practical background for fatigue design of marine structures including sailing ships, offshore structures for oil and gas production, and other welded structures subject to dynamic loading such as wind turbine structures. Industry expert Inge Lotsberg brings more than forty years of experience in design and standards-setting to this comprehensive guide to the basics of fatigue design of welded structures. Topics covered include laboratory testing, S-N data, different materials, different environments, stress concentrations, residual stresses, acceptance criteria, non-destructive testing, improvement methods, probability of failure, bolted connections, grouted connections, and fracture mechanics. Featuring twenty chapters, three hundred diagrams, forty-seven example calculations, and resources for further study, Fatigue Design of Marine Structures is intended as the complete reference work for study and practice.

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Fatigue degradation mechanism and failure modes
4. Fatigue testing and assessment of test data
5. Fatigue design approaches
6. S-N curves
7. Stresses in plated structures
8. Stress concentration factors for tubular and shell structures subjected to axial loads
9. Stresses at welds in pipelines, risers, and storage tanks
10. Stress concentration factor for joints
11. Finite element analysis
12. Fatigue assessment based on stress range distributions
13. Fabrication
14. Probability of fatigue failure
15. Design of bolted and threaded connections
16. Fatigue analysis of jacket structures
17. Fatigue analysis of floating platforms
18. Fracture mechanics and unstable fracture
19. Fatigue design of grouted connections
20. Planning of in-service inspection for fatigue cracks
References
Appendix A: examples of fatigue analysis
Appendix B: stress intensity factors.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Engineering thermodynamics [TGMB], Metals technology / metallurgy [TDM], Technical design [TBD], Oceanography [seas RBKC]