...José António Correia Around 38% of structural damage in metallic bridges occurs due to fatigue, with the aggravating factor being a structural phenomenon unknown until some decades ago, which leads to many existing structures being designed without addressing this process of structural degradation...

.... This index has been determined for different French historical standard trains. For these calculations, a set of real iron stringers has been considered, including different periods of construction, different spans and different inertias. Since fatigue is one of the main phenomena to take into account...

... lifespan of a unique aged railway bridge, the Windsor Railway Bridge in the UK. This research encompassed several steps: analysis of past and current traffic, prediction of future traffic trends, fatigue life analysis, estimation of lifespan consumption and estimation of remaining fatigue life. The finite...

... in terms of strain, pavement temperatures and traffic intensities are required to provide estimates of fatigue lives of an orthotropic steel deck. This is done by quantifying the uncertainty reduction due to increasing monitoring training data sets being available. First, several options for monitoring...

..., branched cracking and corrosion fatigue. Tensile test data and preliminary fatigue data were also discussed. However, the exact effect of fatigue acting on single strands still remains unclear. The current study provides detailed fatigue data and fracture mechanism analysis along with test results from...

... presents views that reflect the author's significant experience of dealing with failures in mechanical and metallurgical industries, where dynamic loading occurs and failure is often dominated by fatigue and fracture. In such cases, structural reliability is determined by relatively complex interactions...

... fracture rapidly at low temperature and can crack during welding, in fatigue or as a result of stress corrosion. Certain fabrication processes such as welding, flame cutting and punching exacerbate the risks, especially if the steel is ‘thick’. Galvanising can also be a risk factor. Design engineers should...