Experimental and Numerical Stress Analyses of Tubular XT-Joint
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 125, Issue 11
Abstract
A typical large-scale, steel, multiplanar tubular XT-joint specimen was tested, with its in-plane and out-of-plane braces subjected to a total of 11 different load cases comprising the basic axial loading as well as axial loadings combined with in-plane-bending (IPB) and out-of-plane-bending (OPB) moments. The stress concentration factors (SCFs), strain concentration factors (SNCFs), and the SCF-to-SNCF ratio (S/N Ratio) at the potential hot spot stress locations were investigated. An average S/N Ratio of 1.16 was derived from all the test load cases. The SCFs at typical hot spot locations were also calculated using finite-element (FE) analysis. The good agreement between the numerical and the experimental SCF results confirmed the reliability of the numerical modeling of the XT-joint. In addition, the writers' SCF results were compared with Efthymiou's influence function (IF) method and the ones derived from the corresponding uniplanar T-/X-joints. A clearer understanding of the significance of the multiplanar effects for fatigue design was obtained through this comparison study.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 125 • Issue 11 • November 1999
Pages: 1239 - 1248
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Received: Mar 2, 1999
Published online: Nov 1, 1999
Published in print: Nov 1999
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