tanker hull
2.Abstract: Fatigue cracks in ship hull structures are most likely to occur in the highly stressed structural details.The conventional fatigue analysis is largely dependent on the determination of stress concentration factors (SCFs) at the locations considered.This paper is concerned with the stress concentration of cutout in transverse web for longitudinal stiffener.A series of finite element models is carried out for the stress analysis of predefined structural details.The tabulated SCFs of typical cutouts (ABS Tanker Rules) in transverse web for longitudinal stiffeners are presented based on the finite element analysis (FEA) results.
