After tensile overloading during fatigue crack growth, retardation of the crack growth rate
was significant. Neutron diffraction was employed to examine the evolution of crack-tip …

Crack propagation in near neutral pH (NNpH) environment causes significant threat to
pipeline integrity. Internal pressure fluctuations during pipeline operation create variable …

Offshore structures are subjected to operational and environmental conditions which by
nature are variable in magnitude. For design or assessment purposes a real load spectrum …

Various models exist to predict load interaction effects on fatigue crack growth in variable
amplitude loading conditions. Stress overloads have the potential to strongly retard or even …

The estimation of load interaction effects is essential for residual lifetime calculations of
components with cracks. Whereas overloads are widely investigated, there is still no …

This research aimed to understand the effect of mean load pressure fluctuations on crack
growth in near-neutral pH (NNpH) environment. This work contributes to a larger effort to …

Internal pressure fluctuations during pipeline operations could contribute to crack growth in
steel pipelines. These pressure fluctuations create a variable amplitude loading condition …

As this dissertation marks the last step in obtaining the academic degree of Master of
Science in Electromechanical Engineering at Ghent University, I would like to use this …

Prediction of fatigue crack propagation in metallic structures subjected to dynamic random
load spectra, containing variable overloads and underloads, is challenging because of …

Influence of discretization as a parameter in predicting the fatigue life of CT specimen using a
finite element approach Page 1 Influence of discretization as a parameter in predicting the …