简介：Theobjectiveofthisworkistoanalyzethefatiguereliabilityofcomplexweldedstructurescomposedofmultipleweb-framejoints,accountingforcorrelationeffects.Athree-dimensionalfiniteelementmodelusingthe20-nodesolidelementsisgenerated.Alinearelasticfiniteelementanalysiswasperformed,hotspotstressesinaweb-framejointwereanalyzedandfatiguedamagewasquantifiedemployingtheS-Napproach.Thestatisticaldescriptorsofthefatiguelifeofanon-correlatedweb-framejointcontainingseveralcriticalhotspotswereestimated.Thefatiguereliabilityofaweb-framejointwasmodeledasaseriessystemofcorrelatedcomponentsusingtheDitlevsenbounds.Thefatiguereliabilityoftheentireweldedstructurewithmultipleweb-framejoints,modeledasaparallelsystemofnon-correlatedweb-framejointswasalsocalculated.