REGISTRATION

WELD FATIGUE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE

WTIA Federal Office (Fatigue design events)

PO Box 6165, SILVERWATER, NSW, 1811
Phone: (02) 9748 4443 Fax: (02) 9748 2858
EMAIL: info@wtia.com.au (WTIA ABN 69 003 696 526)

EVENT PLEASE TICK (one or both events)

Venue locations to be supplied on confirmation of enrolment

1-DAY SEMINAR
Sydney
Brisbane
Melbourne
Adelaide

19 June 2012
20 June 2012
22 June 2012
25 June 2012

The degradation of products and structures imposes a significant cost

for the owners and operators of plant and equipment. Besides the
financial aspects, the possible risk to human life and health and the
environment is always a major consideration.
Welding is the most common method of joining metal structures and
components, yet the special considerations necessary to ensure
satisfactory performance from a welded joint under fatigue loading
are often not appreciated by designers, fabricators and
manufacturers.

2-DAY WORKSHOP
Perth

Besides corrosion, fatigue is the main source (more than 75%) of

failures of welded components. In many instances failures occur
prematurely due to inadequate design, manufacturing defects, or
inadequate maintenance and inspection.

27-28 June 2012

Surname: _______________First Name: _______________

Position: _________________________________________
Company Name: __________________________________
Address: ________________________________________

Prof Grzegorz Glinka is one of the worlds leading experts on weld

fatigue design. His popular seminars have already been offered in
many countries around the glob including the USA, Europe and NZ.
The seminar gives a comprehensive update on advanced fatigue
design methods and prevention techniques.

Mobile: __________________________________________

Seminars will be followed by a 2-day comprehensive workshop in

Perth that will give hands-on examples of fatigue calculation
according to various techniques. The workshop is an ideal add-on to
the seminar for those interested in expanding their understanding of
the subject. Do not miss this excellent professional development
event!

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1-Day Seminar around Australia in June 2012

2-Day Advanced Workshop, Perth WA
27-28 June 2012

$550.00

Prof Grzegorz Glinka

$880.00

$990.00

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A Practical Approach

1-DAY SEMINAR

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Fatigue Design of
Welded Structures

Fees include coffee/tea, lunch and seminar or workshop notes

IMPORTANT NOTICE
Cancellations received within 10 working days
of the
seminar/workshop, 100% of the fees will be charged. Replacement
delegates may be sent however, in lieu of those cancelled. WTIA
reserves the right to cancel either event due to insufficient registrations
or other reasons beyond their control. WTIA also reserves the right to
refuse registrations.

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Stress and Fatigue-Fracture Design, SaFFD, Inc.
Expert of the International Institute of Welding Working
Group Fatigue of Welded Components

THE PRESENTER

1-DAY SEMINAR CONTENT

Prof Glinka has been with the

University of Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada since 1989. Prior to this he
was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The
University of Iowa, USA and also
lectured at the University of Metz,
France and at the University College
London, England. He holds a PhD and
DSc from the Warsaw University of
Technology in Poland and is also an Honorary Professor of
the Warsaw University of Technology and Distinguished
Finland Professor at the Aalto University in Helsinki.

Ideally, everything required to design a component or structure would

be covered by published standards. For various reasons, however,
design standards do not usually prescribe the optimal design
solution for every situation leaving designers with open options.

Prof Glinka is a specialist in fracture and fatigue assessment

of steel structures and mechanical engineering machinery.
He has also acted as a United Nations expert. His research
interests include fracture of materials, fatigue of structures,
multi-axial fatigue and creep of engineering materials,
computer aided design, FEM-elastic-plastic stress-strain
analysis, reliability and design of welded structures. His
recent research activities concern modelling of fatigue crack
growth under random loading and fatigue optimisation of
welded structures. Prof Glinka has published over 180
related articles in technical journals and textbooks.
He is active in many national and international bodies
including Commission XIII Fatigue of welded components
and structures of the International Institute of Welding (IIW).
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The 2-Day Workshop will be in particular relevant for people

involved in design, optimisation and fatigue assessment of
steel structures and machinery components. Therefore
attendance is recommended to designers, structural
engineers, mechanical engineers, fabricators, welding
engineers, quality control, maintenance and inspection
personnel, university lecturers, students and researchers.
The 1-Day Seminar will be especially relevant to the
following industry sectors: Steel construction, infrastructure,
fabrication and maintenance, bridge building, transport
industry, power generation, machinery, shipbuilding,
maintenance and the aviation industry.

This seminar will provide a guideline on the use of some of the

commonly used design standards and fatigue life prediction
techniques with plenty of hands-on guidance for designers and
fabricators. It will give an overview of key methods to improve fatigue
performance at the design and fabrication stage. In the case studies,
everyday fractures and cracks in engineering objects will be
discussed.
Methods to optimise fatigue performance and fabrication cost of
welded joints will be discussed in the last session of the seminar, with
demonstrations of software and reference to useful websites.
Delegates are encouraged to bring along their fatigue problems to
contribute to discussions and local case studies.

1- DAY SEMINAR PROGRAMME

08:45
Registration
09:0010:30 Review of American & European rules concerning
static strength analysis of weldments
10:3010:45 Morning Tea
10:4512:15 Global & local approaches to stress analysis
of weldments
12:1513:00 Lunch
13:0014:30 Fatigue strength of weldments
14:3014:45 Afternoon Tea
14:4515:30 Standard methods - fatigue analysis of welded
structures
15:3016:15 Simple fatigue strength improvement for weldments
16:1517:00 Software tools (demo), websites & summary
17:00
Discussion and close
2-DAY WORKSHOP PROGRAMME (08:45 16:30 each day)
08:30
Registration Wednesday 27 June

1. The standard material stress-strain curve and types of

2-DAY WORKSHOP CONTENT

A fatigue assessment is based on two fundamental components: the

analysis of fatigue actions and fatigue resistance of the welded
structure. On the load side, the fatigue actions can be given in the
form of forces on the component, nominal stress in the section,
structural hot-spot stress at a weld toe, notch stress at an effective
weld notch or stress intensity at a crack tip. The exact knowledge of
the actions is one of the greatest unknowns and a source of many
uncertainties.
On the resistance side, the properties may be given by way of a
Woehler (S-N) curve or crack propagation material parameters for
fracture mechanics assessment. The knowledge of actions and the
resistance is essential for the successful fatigue design and
assessment.
The workshop will consider both elements of fatigue assessment indetail. Assessment techniques such as Nominal Stress (S-N), Local
Stress Stress-Strain ( -N), Hot Spot Stress and Fracture Mechanics
Method will be covered in depth using real assessment examples.
Hot topics such as cycle counting procedures, cumulative damage
and the use of the Finite Element method for the fatigue assessment
will be discussed.
The workshop will offer a forum for discussions of individual fatigue
problems and case studies. The workshop is an ideal add-on to the
seminar for those interested in expanding their understanding of the
subject and design calculation skills.

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failure (brittle, ductile and fatigue failure, nominal and actual

stress in notched and welded components)
Contemporary fatigue analysis methods (nominal stress SN analysis, local strain life, fracture mechanics, similarities and
differences, advantages and disadvantages)
Global and local approaches to stress analysis of
weldments (stress distributions, geometric effects, nominal v
hot spot stress, stress concentration factors, shell FE v 3-D
FE modelling, residual stresses in structures and weldments)
Cyclic load and stress patterns (histories) in engineering
objects (sources, characteristic features and time domain
characterisation of cyclic stress histories, Rain-Flow cycle
counting, frequency domain characterisation, standard loading
histories and spectra)
The Nominal Stress (S-N) Method (Fatigue S-N curve,
modification factors, mean stress effect, the notch effect,
standard S-N curves, fatigue damage accumulation and live
estimation)
Simple fatigue strength improvement methods (reduction
of stress concentration and nominal stress, stiffness, local and
global geometry improvements, macro- and microscopic
analysis of failures)
Local strain-life (-N) fatigue analysis method (elasticplastic behaviour, stress concentration, Neuber and ESED
methods, modelling of mean and residual stress, example)
Fracture mechanics fatigue analysis method (linear fracture
mechanics, stress intensity factor K and solutions, weight
function, fatigue crack growth, load sequence, geometry and
residual stress effects, numerical example)
Summary and discussion