A review of fatigue crack growth rates for offshore steels in air and seawater environments
- Failure Control Ltd., Cranleigh (United Kingdom)
- Health and Safety Executive, London (United Kingdom). Offshore Safety Div.
A literature review of fatigue crack growth rates (FCGR) has been performed for steels in air and seawater environments, either free corroding or with applied cathodic protection potentials of {minus}850 and {minus}1050/{minus}1100 mV Ag/AgCl. In all cases a more precise description of cracking was obtained using a bi-linear growth law rather than the more conventional Paris Law. Recommendations were made for mean and design values of the constants C and m on a piece-wise basis suitable for use in fracture mechanics analyses of structures. An effect of R-ratio was observed, and separate recommendations were made for high and low R-ratios to cater for as-welded, and post weld heat treated joints with low mean stress levels.
- OSTI ID:
- 403628
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9606279-; ISBN 0-7918-1492-0; TRN: IM9651%%663
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 14. international conference on offshore mechanics arctic engineering (OMAE), Florence (Italy), 16-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of OMAE 1996 -- Proceedings of the 15. international conference on offshore mechanics and arctic engineering. Volume 3: Materials engineering; Salama, M.M. [ed.] [Conoco Inc., Ponca City, OK (United States)]; Toyoda, Masao [ed.] [Osaka Univ. (Japan)]; Liu, S. [ed.] [Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)]; Santos, J.F. dos [ed.] [GKSS, Geesthacht (Germany)]; Stacey, A. [ed.] [Health and Safety Executive, London (United Kingdom)]; Tubby, P.; Pisarski, H. [eds.] [TWI, Cambridge (United Kingdom)]; PB: 579 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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