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.

Fatigue Design of Marine Structures provides students and designers 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.

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.