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Several design concepts are discussed for the prevention of fatigue and fracture in engineering structures, i.e., safe-life design, fail-safe design, and damage-tolerant design. Further to improve the structural design against fracture, questions may arise whether one can control the crack propagation phenomena to a certain extent based on fracture mechanics, even though fatigue cracks initiate and then propagate. Attempts to this direction are sought by precisely identifying potentially critical locations and the associated failure modes of structural details, predicting crack propagation life considering the effect of retardation due to load sequence and residual stress, and predicting crack paths and shapes during crack propagation. This kind of design concept is sometimes called the fracture control design, which is discussed in detail based on the numerical simulation described in Chap. 10 with some illustrative applications to marine structures.
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Sumi, Y. (2014). Fracture Control of Engineering Structures. In: Mathematical and Computational Analyses of Cracking Formation. Mathematics for Industry, vol 2. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54935-2_11
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