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Aluminium Design and Construction John Dwight

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12.5 CLASSIFICATION OF DETAILS<br />

12.5.1 The BS.8118 classification<br />

An essential step in any fatigue calculation is to classify the form of the<br />

detail at the position being considered, so that the relevant endurance<br />

curve can be selected. British St<strong>and</strong>ard BS.8118 distinguishes nine such<br />

classes, the reference number for each being the value of fr (in N/mm2 )<br />

corresponding to a predicted endurance (N) of 2 million cycles. The<br />

class numbers thus defined are 60, 50, 42, 35, 29, 24, 20, 17, 14.<br />

The class for a given detail may be found by referring to the relevant<br />

table, based on BS.8118:<br />

Table 12.2 non-welded details;<br />

Table 12.3 welded details, crack propagation through parent metal;<br />

Table 12.4 welded details, crack propagation through the weld.<br />

Table 12.3 Classification of fatigue details (arc-welded) —propagation through parent metal<br />

Notes. 1. For cases 26–30, avoid weld returns around lap.<br />

2. l=length of connected part in direction of f r .<br />

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