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The fatigue performance of the weld joint is an important issue in bridge engineering. This study experimentally investigates the microstructural properties and fracture crack growth behaviors of a Q370qENH bridge weathering steel weld joint. The FCG parameters of the base steel, butt weld, and HAZs, considering the effect of different plate thicknesses and stress ratios, are analyzed. Microstructural features, microhardness, and fatigue fracture surfaces are carefully inspected. The FCG rates of different weld regions in the stable crack growth stage are obtained using integral formulas based on the Paris and Walker law. The test results indicate that the heating and cooling process during the welding of Q370qENH steel creates improved microstructures with refined grain sizes and fewer impurities, thus leading to improved FCG performances in the HAZ and weld regions. The crack growth rate of Q370qENH weld regions increases with the stress ratio, and the influencing extent increasingly ranks as the base steel, HAZ, and the weld. The thick plate has a slightly slower fatigue crack growth rate for the Q370qENH weld joints. The Q370qENH base steel presents the highest fatigue crack growth rate, followed by the heat-treated and HAZ cases, while the weld area exhibits the lowest FCG rate. The Paris law coefficients of different regions of Q370qENH welds are presented. The collected data serve as a valuable reference for future analyses of fatigue crack propagation problems of Q370qENH steel bridge joints.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma17236015","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,9]],"date-time":"2024-12-09T10:11:47Z","timestamp":1733739107000},"page":"6015","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Fatigue Crack Growth Performance of Q370qENH Weathering Bridge Steel and Butt Welds"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Yujie","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Engineering Research Center of High-Speed Railway Construction Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"},{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chunjian","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liangkun","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Intelligent Disaster Prevention and Emergency Technologies for Urban Lifeline Engineering, Dongguan 523808, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Haibo","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hunan Tieyuan Civil Engineering Testing Co., Ltd., Changsha 410075, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"106901","DOI":"10.1016\/j.engfailanal.2022.106901","article-title":"Fatigue assessment of fillet weld in steel bridge towers considering corrosion effects","volume":"143","author":"Jiang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Eng. 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