Theobjectiveofthisworkistoanalysefatiguereliabilityofdeckstructuressubjectedtocorrelatedcrackgrowth.Thestressintensityfactorsofthecorrelatedcracksareobtainedbyfiniteelementanalysisandbasedonwhichthegeometrycorrectionfunctionsarederived.TheMonteCarlosimulationsareappliedtopredictthestatisticaldescriptorsofcorrelatedcracksbasedontheParis-Erdoganequation.Aprobabilisticmodelofcrackgrowthasafunctionoftimeisusedtoanalysethefatiguereliabilityofdeckstructuresaccountingforthecrackpropagationcorrelation.Adeckstructureismodelledasaseriessystemofstiffenedpanels,whereastiffenedpanelisregardedasaparallelsystemcomposedofplatesandarelongitudinal.Ithasbeenproventhatthemethoddevelopedherecanbeconvenientlyappliedtoperformthefatiguereliabilityassessmentofstructuressubjectedtocorrelatedcrackgrowth.
