Abstract: The results of a four‐year project, sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, to investigate the fatigue design process in the welded joints of steel offshore structures are summarized. Fatigue damage expressions were ...

Abstract: Reliability analysis of chain‐like series structural systems was performed for the special cases of lognormal stress and both Weibull and lognormal component strength. The goal was to relate component reliability to system ...

Abstract: A framework for the development of fatigue design criteria for components (joints) of tendons of tension leg platforms (TLP) is presented. Two approaches are considered. First, a target reliability for the tendon (as an ...

Abstract: General relationships between individual joint reliability and overall system reliability in a redundant structure with no repair program are presented. Using a fatigue reliability model, a Monte Carlo analysis provided a ...

Abstract: A model for translating fatigue (cycles to failure) data into a probabilistic model for strength, suitable for formal reliability analysis, is presented. The model explicitly includes both the crack initiation and crack ...

Abstract: An efficient and accurate method for computing probabilities of failure,

Abstract: When design factors are considered as random variables and the failure condition cannot be expressed by a closed form algebraic inequality, computations of risk (or probability of failure) may become extremely difficult ...