TECHNICAL APPLICATION OF FRACTURE MECHANICS TO THIN-WALLED STRUCTURES

This paper reveiws recent developments in the application of fracture mechanics to such structures as welded steel tanks, ships, and thin-wall pressure vessels, with particular attention to Japanese work. It describes methods for estimating critical crack size and safe working conditions, taking into account such fabrication variables as angular distortion, welding residual stress, prestrain, plate curvature and stress concentration. While most of the paper is devoted to a consideration of the conditions for crack instability, it also discusses crack arrest and gives experimental results for the effect of thickness on both initiation and arrest.

• Corporate Authors:

  Applied Science Publishers Limited

  22 Rippleside Commercial Estate, Ripple Road
  Barking, Essex,   England 
• Authors:
  • Kihara, H
  • Ikeda, K
• Publication Date: 1973-10

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 317-338
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Pressure Vessels & Piping
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Applied Science Publishers Limited

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cracking; Fracture mechanics; Residual stress; Stresses; Welds
• Uncontrolled Terms: Crack propagation
• Old TRIS Terms: Crack arrest; Residual stresses; Weld stresses
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057621
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 22 1974 12:00AM