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 Mark Chillery's articles in the NAFEMS Benchmark Journal

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Written Articles

The 'Knowledge Base' series, written by Mark Chillery has been running in BENCHmark magazine since October 2003. Each article is intended to provide an overview of various theoretical aspects of structural analysis. .

Tim Morris, NAFEMS Chief Executive says "This series of articles has been, and continues to be, very popular. As well as being an invaluable introduction for novice users, they have also served as a valuable set of reminders for analysis veterans, as well as introducing areas such as Probabilistic Analysis methods that might be relatively unknown by many experienced analysts."

As well as being published in the quarterly journal 'Benchmark', these articles can now be viewed on the NAFEMS site.

 

 

 

FEA in Conjunction with Codes of Practice

Fatigue analysis of Welds in Steel and Aluminium - whether structural steelwork, complex fabricated forgings or welded aluminium extrusions, an assessment of weld or bolted joint fatigue is often an important element of any structural assessment. Unfortunately, the many codes and standards that cover fatigue of these connections pre-date computer aided analysis, so using results from FEA in conjunction with these codes requires careful interpretation.

This article gives a general review of some approaches to asses the fatigue life of bolted and welded joints, using FEA in conjunction with two widely applied codes of practice - BS7608 and 8118.


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