2001 年 8 巻 32 号 p. 9-16
A hot spot stress (HSS) concept is expected to be widely used in a fatigue assessment of welded steel structures. In order to investigate an influence of welded attachment size on HSS, finite element analyses were conducted on longitudinally stiffened joints. As a result, it was revealed that weld leg length affects HSS values but not local stress concentration field. Based on this fact, revised two-point extrapolating method for HSS calculation was proposed. In case of a very small stiffener, both the length and height of a stiffener influence HSS. But for a lager stiffener, the influence is saturated. Furthermore, the fatigue strength grades in the existing fatigue design recommendations were compared with the HSS values.