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AN IMPROVED PROCEDURE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF HOT SPOT STRESSES IN TUBULAR JOINTS
Author(s) -
Soh A. K.
Publication year - 1997
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/j.1460-2695.1997.tb01523.x
Subject(s) - finite element method , structural engineering , chord (peer to peer) , displacement (psychology) , brace , intersection (aeronautics) , stress (linguistics) , materials science , engineering , computer science , psychology , distributed computing , linguistics , philosophy , psychotherapist , aerospace engineering
— A conventional finite element method may show a weakness when determining the hot spot stress distributions in the brace/chord intersection region of offshore tubular joints. This is because the chosen element displacement functions do not implicitly satisfy the conditions which prevail on the free surfaces. A procedure has been proposed to modify the conventional finite element method so as to allow the hot spot stresses, which occur at the free boundary of the weld toe of tubular joints, to be determined with improved accuracy. The results obtained by this modified method are compared with both an experimental and a traditional finite element solution. The comparison shows that the modified solution is in better agreement with the experimental data as compared with the traditional solution.