Fatigue of engineering materials is a very complicated process that is difficult to accurately describe and predict. It is no doubt nowadays, that a fatigue of real materials should be regarded as a random phenomenon and analyzed by use of stochastic theory. This volume of the lectures sumarises the latest achievements in stochastic modelling and analysis of fatigue. The lectures cover the following important aspects of modern analysis of fatigue: methodology of stochastic modelling of fatigue, tools for characterization of random fatigue loads, physical and mechanical aspects of random fatigue, basic stochastic models for fatigue and the estimation of fatigue reliability of specific structural systems.

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Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

K. Sobczyk

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Book Title: Stochastic Approach to Fatigue
Book Subtitle: Experiments, Modelling and Reliability Estimation
Editors: K. Sobczyk
Series Title: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2622-6
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-82452-8Published: 26 April 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-2622-6Published: 04 May 2014
Series ISSN: 0254-1971
Series E-ISSN: 2309-3706
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Stochastic Modelling of Fatigue: Methodical Background

Characterization of Random Fatigue Loads

Physical and Micromechanical Aspects of Stochastic Fatigue Crack Growth

Random Initial Defects and Fatigue Life Prediction

Stochastic Cumulative Models for Fatigue

Stochastic Diffusion Models for Fatigue Crack Growth and Reliability Estimation

Fatigue Reliability of Marine Structures

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