Title
Partial safety factor calibration from stochastic finite element computation of welded joint with random geometries.
Abstract
Welded joints are used in various structures and infrastructures like bridges, ships and offshore structures, and are submitted to cyclic stresses. Their fatigue behaviour is an industrial key issue to deal with and still offers original research subjects. One of the available methods relies on the computing of the stress concentration factor. Even if some studies were previously driven to evaluate this factor onto some cases of welded structures, the shape of the weld joint is generally idealized through a deterministic parametric geometry. Previous experimental works however have shown that this shape plays a key role in the lifetime assessment. We propose in this paper a methodology for computing the stress concentration factor in presence of random geometries of welded joints. In view to make the results available by engineers, this method merges stochastic computation and semi-probabilistic analysis by computing partial safety factors with a dedicated method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.ress.2016.05.016
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Keywords
Field
DocType
00-01,99-00
Parametric statistics,Finite element computation,Engineering,Safety factor,Stress concentration,Calibration,Welding,Computation,Structural engineering
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
155
0951-8320
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Franck Schoefs1516.76
mathilde chevreuil2131.37
Olivier Pasqualini310.35
Mikaël Cazuguel410.35