Stress Concentration Factors For Simple Tubular Joints

Abstract

The project Stress Concentration Factors for Simple Tubular Joints was a UK Department of Energy (DEn) sponsored project, completed in 1990. The primary objectives of this project were to assess current methods for deriving SCFs in simple tubular joints, to discuss the applicability of the more commonly used parametric equations, and to derive a new set of parametric equations that would reduce some of the anomalies in the existing formulae. In this paper the principal conclusions of this project are summarised and the new Lloyd's Register parametric equations estimating SCFs for simple tubular joints are presented.