PSI - Issue 57

Alberto Visentin et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 57 (2024) 524–531 Alberto Visentin et al./ Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2023) 000 – 000

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histories for bending and torsion are generated in a different way” according to the Authors of the original investigations (Witt et al. 2000; Yousefi et al. 2001) . Fatigue cracks always initiated at the tube-side weld toe and fatigue results were reported in terms of the number of cycles to obtain a through -the-thickness crack (Witt et al. 2000; Yousefi et al. 2001).

Figure 2 . The automated PSM tool implemented in Ansys ® Mechanical . Overview of the automated analysis workflow for VA loading.