Thank you for the quick and informative reply LittleInch! Your rationale for the contact area given by API 1102 as a 12'' by 12'' tire area makes perfect sense. Again, my situation is for heavy dump trucks, so the tires they use are heavy-duty and would be more than this area.
When you mention...
Hi all,
I am a chemical engineer working in the natural gas pipeline industry. It often comes up that we will use API RP 1102 as a guideline to check cyclic stress for potential fatigue in welds underneath a highway crossing.
In calculating the cyclic stresses aka the longitudinal stress due...
