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7.1

7 Analysis Details

7.1 General
Details of some of the various checks by the members of the group are compiled in this section.
The page numbering is consecutively throughout the whole section.
Since each contribution is a more or less self-contained part, each is preceeded by a summary page,
which shows in the page head the example number, in the Analysis Type box the checks dealt with,
and in the Member box an acronym for the responsible group member.
To ease browsing, a letter is added in brackets to the page number to indicate the responsible group
member, and the paragraph numbering is new for each new contribution.
The usual order is
• GPD-Check and PD-Check
• Stress Categorisation Route
• F-Check
• I-Check, where applicable
• SE-Check, where applicable
For the GPD-check and the PD-check there are usually two approaches given
• Direct route using elastic compensation
• Direct route (using non-linear calculations)
The stress categorisation route follows after the PD-check.
The fatigue results are all based on linear-elastic FE-calculations. If the F-check given is from a
group member different from the one whose PD-check is given, these linear-elastic calculations are
separate ones, just for the F-check. The stress components used are stated, but they cannot be
deduced always from other plots exactly.
To avoid unnecessary problems, we state here again that the formulae in the F–checks differ from
those given in section 18 of prEN 13445-3, which is reproduced in Annex 2.
The formulae used here agree with those in the flow-sheets given in subsection 3.8 of this manual,
and the flow-sheets have been used directly. The main changes in the formulae are stated in
subsection 3.8 of section 3 – Procedures, and they are repeated at the beginning of Annex 2.
Since some details on partial safety factors for actions and on characteristic values are missing in
the subsection on the I-check in prEN13445-3 Annex B, some additional material had been agreed
upon, used, and described in subsection 3.7 of section 3 – Procedures.
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