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Acceptable Fatigue Crack - Theory

Vladimir Tomica, Martin Krejsa, Jozef Gocal
Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series
2008, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 103-110
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This article provides an introduction to the characteristics of the acceptable fatigue crack size in steel structures and bridges. This crack size plays a key role in degradation of an element designed for an extreme loading combination but in fact is exposed to variable service loads.
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