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On the interaction between corrosion and fatigue which determines the remaining life of bridges
Author(s) -
Peng D.,
Jones R.,
Singh R.R.K.,
Berto F.,
McMillan A.J.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2695
pISSN - 8756-758X
DOI - 10.1111/ffe.12680
Subject(s) - corrosion , corrosion fatigue , structural engineering , natural (archaeology) , materials science , simple (philosophy) , forensic engineering , engineering , metallurgy , geology , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology
This paper studies the prior effect of corrosion on fatigue on the growth of cracks that arise from natural corrosion in steel bridges. It is shown that these 2 effects need to be simultaneously analysed. If not, then the resulting life is not conservative. This paper presents a simple methodology for performing this coupled analysis.