Confused sea-state induced fatigue: Joint swell and wind seas induced multiaxial stresses: the influence of confused sea-state induced multiaxial stress-states on fatigue damage of a USCG cutter.

Marine structures are mostly exposed to mild and moderate sea-states, where the structural response is elastic. Characteristics of environmental loading are highly stochastic in nature, resulting in stress-states that might be multiaxial. This thesis attempts to identify the source and effect of these multiaxial stress-states on fatigue damage...