Increased fatigue life of vehicles by the use of improved weld locations - a resume of the research programme carried out using the experimental vehicle 'convex' (TM-EST-023)

Most rail vehicle structures have regions where, if insufficient attention is paid to detail design, fatigue failure will be the rule rather than the exception. For some types of vehicle these regions will be highly localised whilst for others they will be widespread. Their number and dispersion will also depend...