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Fatigue Performance Analysis of Welded T-Joints in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks with Ultrasonic Impact Treatment

This study aims to assess the effect of ultrasonic impact treatment (UIT) on the exterior weld seam of S355J2 T-joints used in orthotropic steel bridge decks. The microstructure and mechanical behavior of T-joints after UIT was investigated in this study. Fatigue tests of T-joints before and after U...

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Autores principales: Liu, Yizhou, Huang, Wenhua, Yu, Banhai, Chen, Zhihao, Wang, Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10532892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37763473
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16186196
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author Liu, Yizhou
Huang, Wenhua
Yu, Banhai
Chen, Zhihao
Wang, Ping
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description This study aims to assess the effect of ultrasonic impact treatment (UIT) on the exterior weld seam of S355J2 T-joints used in orthotropic steel bridge decks. The microstructure and mechanical behavior of T-joints after UIT was investigated in this study. Fatigue tests of T-joints before and after UIT were performed. The stress concentration at the interior and exterior weld toe of T-joints was considered using the traction structural stress method. The results showed that hardness increases by 10% due to the localized grain refinement caused by UIT. UIT significantly improves the fatigue life of T-joint specimens by 350% and 150% at stress ratios of 0.1 and 0.3, respectively. As the transition angle between the weld profile and the base metal profile increases, the stress concentration factor decreases.
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spelling pubmed-105328922023-09-28 Fatigue Performance Analysis of Welded T-Joints in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks with Ultrasonic Impact Treatment Liu, Yizhou Huang, Wenhua Yu, Banhai Chen, Zhihao Wang, Ping Materials (Basel) Article This study aims to assess the effect of ultrasonic impact treatment (UIT) on the exterior weld seam of S355J2 T-joints used in orthotropic steel bridge decks. The microstructure and mechanical behavior of T-joints after UIT was investigated in this study. Fatigue tests of T-joints before and after UIT were performed. The stress concentration at the interior and exterior weld toe of T-joints was considered using the traction structural stress method. The results showed that hardness increases by 10% due to the localized grain refinement caused by UIT. UIT significantly improves the fatigue life of T-joint specimens by 350% and 150% at stress ratios of 0.1 and 0.3, respectively. As the transition angle between the weld profile and the base metal profile increases, the stress concentration factor decreases. MDPI 2023-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10532892/ /pubmed/37763473 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16186196 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Liu, Yizhou
Huang, Wenhua
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Chen, Zhihao
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Fatigue Performance Analysis of Welded T-Joints in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks with Ultrasonic Impact Treatment
title Fatigue Performance Analysis of Welded T-Joints in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks with Ultrasonic Impact Treatment
title_full Fatigue Performance Analysis of Welded T-Joints in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks with Ultrasonic Impact Treatment
title_fullStr Fatigue Performance Analysis of Welded T-Joints in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks with Ultrasonic Impact Treatment
title_full_unstemmed Fatigue Performance Analysis of Welded T-Joints in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks with Ultrasonic Impact Treatment
title_short Fatigue Performance Analysis of Welded T-Joints in Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks with Ultrasonic Impact Treatment
title_sort fatigue performance analysis of welded t-joints in orthotropic steel bridge decks with ultrasonic impact treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10532892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37763473
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16186196
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