FRICKE , W.

This paper deals with the fatigue assessment of three ship structural details. While local approaches, which are proposed in relevant literature and which nowadays are also widely applied in design practice, can successfully assess the fatigue strength of several welded joints, web-stiffened complex geometries show peculiar features, needing to...

The Peak Stress Method (PSM) is a simplified, finite element-based technique to readily estimate the Notch Stress Intensity Factors (NSIFs) at the tip of sharp-V-shaped notches. More precisely, it was shown that the maximum principal stress evaluated at the V-notch tip by means of a rather coarse finite element analysis is proportional to the...