Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 314-322 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2018 |
Keywords
- Corrosion
- Fatigue crack growth
- Remaining life
- Steel bridges