Feasibility of Acoustic Emission Methods for Fatigue Monitoring in Tubular Double Side Welded T-joints

In the field of fatigue testing in laboratory conditions, the common practice is uniaxial testing (i.e. in tension). The real-life loads on structures are usually not limited to one direction but contain multiaxial components. For this kind of testing, the ship and offshore structures department of Delft University of Technology developed a...

Numerical and Experimental study on the application of the Self-Magnetic Flux Leakage method for monitoring fatigue cracks in Steel Structures

Fatigue crack monitoring is essential to Ship and Offshore structures, in order to guarantee structural integrity and safety on board. Regular inspections, which are currently performed manually are hazardous, costly and infrequent. The CrackGuard JIP has the goal of developing a system for reliable monitoring of fatigue cracks based on the...