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Approximately 80% of the total fatigue life of the tube-to-plate weldments was spent in initiating fatigue cracks in the life regime of 10$\\sp5$ to 10$\\sp7$ cycles for all loading paths studied.","The fatigue test results were correlated with various multiaxial fatigue damage parameters based on the local, notch-root stresses from finite element analyses of the weld-toe notches. The tests results for both the in-phase and out-of-phase load histories could be correlated using Findley's equivalent shear stress model. The in-phase and out-of-phase test data could not be correlated using a maximum principal stress model, but a model based on a von Mises effective stress did better than the former but not as well as Findley's model. The ability of the current fatigue design codes to deal with nonproportional loading cases was evaluated.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:44:54Z (GMT). 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