Print Email Facebook Twitter An investigation on the fatigue performance of cracked steel plates reinforced with FRP and stop hole Title An investigation on the fatigue performance of cracked steel plates reinforced with FRP and stop hole Author Liu, Zhiping (Wuhan University of Technology; Ministry of Education Hangzhou) Li, Z. (TU Delft Support Marine and Transport Techology; Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)) Huang, Chuanhai (Wuhan University of Technology) Jiang, X. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) Date 2021 Abstract In this paper, we implement the combined method of drilling stop hole and FRP reinforcement to repair cracked steel plates subjected to cyclic tension. The crack initiation and growth are experimentally investigated. The stress distribution at the stop hole and the residual fatigue life are evaluated by the FEM. The effects on prolonging residual fatigue life are analyzed. The results show that the effectiveness of only using the stop hole is limited, while the combined method has dramatically prolonged the residual fatigue life. The effect mainly owes to the increasing of the crack initiation life from the stop hole. Subject Crack initiationdrilling stop holefatigue lifefatigue performanceFRP reinforcement To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c25ae58d-35d9-4695-a4d4-77ef6a1afdc4 DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/15376494.2021.1907005 ISSN 1537-6494 Source Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 29 (25), 3646-3657 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Zhiping Liu, Z. Li, Chuanhai Huang, X. Jiang Files PDF An_investigation_on_the_f ... p_hole.pdf 3.79 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c25ae58d-35d9-4695-a4d4-77ef6a1afdc4/datastream/OBJ/view