Abstract: Experimental results from 20 welded specimens are presented to establish the validity of an auto‐regressive simulation technique for fatigue studies. The key parameter in simulating time histories with the auto‐regressive ...

Abstract: Sixteen welded steel specimens have been tested under variable amplitude loadings to determine the extent to which fatigue life is affected by the rate of amplitude variability of the loading process. It appears that rate ...

Abstract: Experimental results from constant amplitude fatigue tests are analyzed to account for the possible effect of residual stresses induced by welding of the specimens. It is shown that large amplitude precycling of a welded ...

Abstract: A refined theory for the bending of plates with moderately large deflections is proposed. The presented theory is an extension of the technical theory of plates for small strains. The plate theory presented by Voyiadjis ...

Abstract: Random-amplitude fatigue situations are studied to determine the possible effects of residual stresses induced by the welding of the specimens. Experimental results show that large-amplitude precycling of a welded specimen ...

Abstract: An efficient stochastic simulation method is presented for generating sample time histories of multidimensional, spatially correlated, stationary Gaussian random fields. A key feature of the method is the use of filtering ...

Abstract: An efficient method is presented for approximate computation of extreme value characteristics of the response of a linear structure subjected to nonstationary Gaussian excitation. The characteristics considered are the ...

Abstract: Analytical solutions are obtained for the interior and edge-zone equations of Mindlin-Reissner plate theory in bending of composite circular sector plates laminated of transversely isotropic layers. Circular sector laminates, ...