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Fatigue of Corrugated-Web Plate Girders: Experimental Study

2006· article· en· W2100728540 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Structural Engineering · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Load-Bearing Analysis
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersMcMaster UniversityNational Science Foundation
KeywordsGirderFlangeStructural engineeringWeldingEngineeringTension (geology)Stress (linguistics)Stress concentrationMaterials scienceComposite materialFinite element methodUltimate tensile strength

Abstract

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As a result of stress concentration, welding transverse stiffeners in flat-web plate girders reduces their fatigue life. The focus of this study is to investigate the behavior of trapezoidally corrugated-web plate girders (CWPG) under fatigue loading by means of evaluating their fatigue life under different stress ranges. The test girders failed by fatigue cracks, which started at the weld between the web and the tension flange near the web fold line. A relationship between the stress range “Fr” and the number of cycles to failure “N” was developed for CWPG. Fatigue lives of the tested CWPG were compared to other girder types and the test results were related to the current AASHTO specifications.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
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Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.285
Threshold uncertainty score0.988

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Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it