Fatigue damage is considered to be one of the most critical phenomenon, contributing to the failure of an aircraft structure. Understanding the fatigue mechanism is essential for considering the different technical conditions that influence the fatigue life of structures. In recent years, fatigue tests are accelerated in order to reduce the testing time of materials/structures being developed, ...

Considering the stress cycles in the joints and members due to wave induced forces on offshore platforms, fatigue analysis is therefore one of the most important analyses in the offshore platforms design. Although most of the steel jacket type platforms are designed and located in areas with relatively high ratios of operational sea-states, for maximum environmental events, would have acceptabl...

Two efficient methods for time-dependent fatigue reliability analysis are proposed in this paper based on a random process representation of material fatigue properties and a nonlinear damage accumulation rule. The first method is developed by matching the first two central moments of the accumulated damage to a well-known probability distribution, thus facilitating direct analytical solution o...

Uncertainties related to fatigue damage estimation of non-linear systems are highly dependent on the tail behaviour and extreme values of the stress range distribution. By using a combination of the First Order Reliability Method (FORM) and Monte Carlo simulations (MCS), the accuracy of the fatigue estimations may be improved for the same computational efforts. The method is applied to a bottom...

Wind turbines components are subject to considerable stresses and fatigue due to extreme environmental conditions to which they are exposed, especially those located offshore. With this aim, the present work explores two different approaches on fatigue damage estimation and remaining useful life predictions of wind turbine blades. The first approach uses the rainflow counting algorithm. The sec...

A new multiaxial high-cycle fatigue initiation life prediction model for railroad wheels is proposed in this paper. A general fatigue damage analysis methodology for complex mechanical components is developed and applied to the wheel/rail rolling contact fatigue problem. A 3-D elasto-plastic finite element model is used for stress analysis. A submodeling technique is used to achieve both comput...

Recent studies have found that stringer-to-cross-girder connections in riveted railway bridges are susceptible to fatigue cracking. Fatigue damage in these connections is caused by secondary, deformation induced effects. These effects are difficult to interpret in terms of a single, applied stress descriptor, which is customarily used in an S-N assessment. In order to address this problem, and,...

Introduction Fatigue is the structural damage that leads the components of a wind turbine to sudden brittle failure when it suffers cyclic loading [15]. As the size of wind turbines is growing, fatigue loads become more and more significant for the design of major structural components. Concerning fatigue in a wind turbine tower, the fore-aft tower foot bending moment is considered as the most ...

Vibration fatigue test and analysis methodology for flip chip solder joint fatigue life assessment have been developed by performing vibration tests with constant G-level and varying G-level input excitation. The linear cumulative damage analysis method (Miner’s rule) predicts non-conservative result for vibration fatigue life of flip chip solder joint. Finite element analysis (FEA) using a glo...

Composite materials are high-performance engineering materials increasingly used by the aerospace industry in part because of their high strength-to-weight ratios. Fatigue damage represents one of the most important sources of concern for in-service performance, which has led to growing research interest in industry and academia. Influenced by a long-standing understanding of the principles of ...