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esults of work covering assessment of 634 structural<br />

configurations (fromReferences4.4 and 4.5). It establishes<br />

the basis for selecting and evaluating ship details and<br />

developing a ship details design procedure. This method<br />

accounts for three of the most important parameters that<br />

affect fatigue life of a ship detail:<br />

●<br />

Mean fatigue resistance of local fatigue details (S-N<br />

curve)<br />

●<br />

Applicationof a ’’reliability”factorto accountforS-N<br />

data scatter and slope<br />

●<br />

Applicationofa “randomload” factorto account for the<br />

projected stress history<br />

Munse’s design method can also be used to estimate fatigue<br />

life based on actual or assumed stress history and a<br />

reliability factor. A study carried out at the American<br />

Bureau of <strong>Ship</strong>ping (ABS) (Reference4.6) to evaluate fatigue<br />

life predictionsutilizedseveralmethods, includingMunse’s.<br />

The study, based on stress histories derived from strain<br />

measurements of containership hatch-corners, provided good<br />

comparative results. Although Munse’s method neglects the<br />

effect of mean stress, the fatigue lives computed compared<br />

well with lives that are computed using other methods.<br />

Munse’s design method is an acceptable fatigue design<br />

procedure for all vessels. This design method allows proper<br />

selectionof design details and providesfor design of a costeffective<br />

vessel appropriate for the long term environmental<br />

loadings. Vessels that are considered non-standard due to<br />

their configuration and/or function (such as a tanker with<br />

internal turret mooring or a drillship) should be further<br />

analyzed, including a thorough spectral fatigue analysis.<br />

Munse’s design procedureis suimnarizedin the block diagramon<br />

Figure 4-2.<br />

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