Eurocode 3: Design of Steel Structures
Part 1-9 – Fatigue
Eurocode 4: Design of Composite Steel and
Concrete Structures
This volume addresses the specific subject of fatigue, a subject not familiar to many engineers, but still relevant for proper and good design of numerous steel structures. It explains all issues related to the subject: Basis of fatigue design, reliability and various verification formats, determination of stresses and stress ranges, fatigue strength, application range and limitations. It contains detailed examples of applications of the concepts, computation methods and verifications.
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Basis of fatigue design in steel structures
1.2. Damage equivalent factor concept
1.3. Codes of practice
1.4 Description of the structures used in the worked examples
Chapter 2 APPLICATION RANGE AND LIMITATIONS
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Materials
2.3 Corrosion
2.4 Temperature
2.5 Loading rate
2.6 Limiting stress ranges
Chapter 3 DETERMINATION OF STRESSES AND STRESS RANGES
3.1 Fatigue loads
3.2 Damage equivalent factors
3.3 Calculation of stresses
3.4 Modified nominal stresses and concentration factors
3.5 Geometric stresses (Structural stress at the hot spot)
3.6 Stresses in orthotropic decks
3.7 Calculation of stress ranges
3.8 Modified nominal stress ranges
3.9 Geometric stress ranges
Chapter 4 FATIGUE STRENGTH
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Fatigue detail tables
4.3 Determination of fatigue strength or life by testing
Chapter 5 RELIABILITY AND VERIFICATION
5.1 Generalities
5.2 Strategies
5.3 Partial factors
5.4 Verification
Chapter 6 BRITTLE FRACTURE
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Steel quality
6.3 Relationship between different fracture toughness test results
6.4 Fracture concept in EN 1993-1-10
6.5 Standardisation of choice of material: maximum allowable thicknesses
Annex A STANDARDS FOR STEEL CONSTRUCTION
Annex B FATIGUE DETAIL TABLES WITH COMMENTARY
Annex C MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE THICKNESS TABLES
Alain Nussbaumer
Luis Borges
Laurence Davaine