Standard Practice for Steel Buildings and Bridges (AISC,. 2000), and the material or weld metal. The imperfections act tration factors to stresses determined by
Therefore, fatigue life assessment played a significant role in application of gantry cranes, and this direction attracted more and more interest in current.
>Design life of 50 years, crane is heavily loaded 15x per shift x 2 shifts x 5 days a week. = 390,000 cycles (fatigue check required!!) Page 20. Stress Range.
Dynamic characteristic analysis and fatigue life estimation of steel-structure bridges under vehicle loading. Bo Zhao1 , Han Zhu2 , Yue Yin3 , Shuai Mei4.
lattice boom fatigue life assessment of a crane has considerable significance in ensuring safety estimation of the entire metal structure and the life.
