文档介绍：KTH Engineering Sciences
Residual Stress Analysis and Fatigue
Assessment of Welded Steel Structures
Zuheir Barsoum
Doctoral Thesis
Stockholm, Sweden 2008
Division of Lightweight Structures
Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering
School of Engineering Sciences
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)
SE-100 44 Stockholm
Academic dissertation which with permission of Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm
is presented for public review and doctoral examination on April 25th 2008 at in E1,
KTH, Lindstedtsvägen 3, Stockholm.
TRITA-AVE 2008:11
ISSN 1651-7660
© Zuheir Barsoum, 2008.
PREFACE
The work in this doctoral thesis has been carried out at the Division of Lightweight Structures
at the Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering at KTH between September 2003
and April 2008. The work done in this thesis is a part of the Nordic R&D project QFAB -
Quality and Cost of Fabricated Advanced Welded Structures which was brought to
conclusion in 2006. The research was continued in the Swedish R&D project LOST - Light
Optimized Welded Structures, which was started in 2007.
Some of the work has also been presented and discussed mission XIII (Fatigue of
Welded Structures) in the International Institute of Welding (IIW) during the Annual
Assembly in Prague 2005, Quebec 2006 and Dubrovnik 2007. The work in this thesis has
been funded by Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE), SSAB, The Swedish Vehicle
Research Program (PFF), the Nordic Innovation Centre (NiCe), VINNOVA and the MERA
program.
First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Prof. Jack
Samuelsson (Volvo CE and KTH), for his continued support, encouragement and patience
throughout the process of this work. His guidance as a scientist,