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AISC Fatigue Design Guidelines

1. Fatigue failure occurs due to cyclic loading and is governed by the number of loading cycles, maximum and minimum stress range, and initial flaw size. 2. The AISC specification does not require fatigue evaluation for structures with less than 20,000 loading cycles or a stress range below the threshold allowable stress range. 3. Fatigue design is based on exponential S-N curves relating the number of cycles to failure to the stress range. The AISC specification assigns stress categories to structural details which determine coefficient and threshold values used to calculate allowable stress ranges ensuring indefinite design life.

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AISC Fatigue Design Guidelines

1. Fatigue failure occurs due to cyclic loading and is governed by the number of loading cycles, maximum and minimum stress range, and initial flaw size. 2. The AISC specification does not require fatigue evaluation for structures with less than 20,000 loading cycles or a stress range below the threshold allowable stress range. 3. Fatigue design is based on exponential S-N curves relating the number of cycles to failure to the stress range. The AISC specification assigns stress categories to structural details which determine coefficient and threshold values used to calculate allowable stress ranges ensuring indefinite design life.

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  • Structural Steel Design Against Fatigue
  • AISC Specification Approach for Fatigue
  • Exponential S-N Design Curves
  • AISC Specification Fatigue Design

Structural Steel Design Against Fatigue

See S&J Sect. 2.11 & AISC Specification


Appendix 3 (& Commentary)

Fatigue is a progressive failure under cyclic


loading, resulting in unstable crack
propagation; it is generally governed by:
Number of cycles of loading

Service load stress range (max. min.), esp.


in tension

Initial (stable) flaw size, where a flaw can


1
be a small crack, notch, discontinuity, etc.
AISC Specification Approach for Fatigue
No fatigue resistance evaluation is required
if the number of cycles of LL application is
< 20,000 (approx. 2/day for 25 years)
Practically means that typ. only crane-runway
girders & structures supporting machinery need
to be considered in buildings, plus all sorts of
related (AASHTO) highway bridge applications

No fatigue resistance evaluation is required if


the LL stress range is < a threshold allowable
stress range, FTH (the max. stress range for
2

indefinite design life of a particular detail).


Exponential S-N Design Curves
Based (in part) on extensive worldwide
databases of test results, in conjunction w/
analyses [see AISC Commentary 3.3]:
N = number of cycles to failure
Sr = stress range
Cf = constant coefficient for each detail category
(adjusted so the design curve is two standard
deviations below the mean test data)

N = Cf / Srn (i.e., log N = A n log Sr)


[see AISC Fig. C-A-3.1] 3
AISC Specification Fatigue Design
AISC Table A-3.1 comprises 8 sections of
general conditions for fatigue design:
Each specific detail falls into one of 11 stress
categories (A, B, B, C, C, C, D, E, E, F, G),
which then in turn dictates the values of Cf & FTH
For stress categories A, B, B, C, D, E & E:
FSR = allowable stress range
= (Cf/nSR)0.333 ( FTH) [AISC Eq. A-3-1]
where nSR = # of stress range fluctuations in design life

Similar AISC expressions exist for details in the other


stress categories; there are also some specific 4

fabrication, detailing, inspection & testing requirements.

Structural Steel Design Against Fatigue See S&J Sect. 2.11 & AISC Specification Appendix 3 (& Commentary) Fatigue is a prog
AISC Specification Approach for Fatigue No fatigue resistance evaluation is required if the number of cycles of LL applicat
Exponential S-N Design Curves Based (in part) on extensive worldwide databases of test results, in conjunction w/ analyses
AISC Specification Fatigue Design AISC Table A-3.1 comprises 8 sections of general conditions for fatigue design: • Each sp

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