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fatigue analysis for longitudanal welded attachments

Thread starter lvkb
Start date Feb 22, 2006

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Feb 22, 2006

lvkb

Civil/Environmental

I have a large stressed monopile (3.5m in diameter) to which is welded a 200x200mm channel to house cabling. In doing fatigue analysis to the DNV codes I am using a S-N curve classification of F3. Do I also need to included a Stress Concentration factor in my fatigue calc?