TY - CONF A1 - Schürmann, K. A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Schaumann, P. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Automatically Welded Tubular X-Joints –Welding Procedure and Prediction of the Technical Fatigue Crack Location N2 - To increase the competitiveness of jacket substructures compared to monopiles a changeover from an individual towards a serial jacket production based on automated manufactured tubular joints combined with standardized pipes has to be achieved. Therefore, this paper ad-dresses the welding process of automated manufactured tubular X-joints. Additionally, fatigue tests of the automatically welded tubular joints are presented focusing on the location of the technical fatigue crack. The detected location of the technical crack is compared to numerical investigations predicting the most fatigue prone notch considering the structural stress approach as well as the notch stress approach. T2 - ISOPE-2019 Honolulu Conference The 29th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference CY - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA DA - 16.06.2019 KW - Notch stress approach KW - Tubular X-joints KW - Automated manufacturing KW - Fatigue tests KW - Structural stress approach PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-51870 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -