Title: Fatigue reliability: a review of recent advances

Authors: P.H. Wirsching, H. P. Nguyen

Addresses: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0119, USA. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0119, USA

Abstract: Fatigue is generally considered the most important failure mode in mechanical and structural systems. Reliability methods are appropriate for managing the large uncertainties that exist in fatigue design factors. In this paper, methods of fatigue reliability analysis are reviewed with emphasis on recent work, for which time variant reliability methods are used to model fatigue-weakened structures.

Keywords: fatigue; probabilistic design; reliability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMPT.2001.001275

International Journal of Materials and Product Technology, 2001 Vol.16 No.4/5, pp.285-294

Published online: 01 Jul 2003 *

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