Author(s)

J. Kozak

Abstract

Fatigue strength of ship structure is one of the components of reliability of ship as a mean of transport. Majority of fatigue strength assessment proposals given by classification societies are based on use of characteristics of typical joints or designs of hull construction given if form the Wohler curves. More accuracy calculation will be done if more adequate Wohler curve to calculate the problem will be applied. To gather wide spectrum of fatigue properties of typical ship hull nodal points fatigue tests should be performed and their results have to be systematised. Paper show an exemplary of systematic fatigue tests result as well as way of their systematisation. Introduction During our life rapid growth of new types of ships and offshore structures is observed and completely new

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