A stochastic model describing fatigue crack growth under random overload peaks is presented. A Poisson flow of overloads superimposed on a base-line constant-amplitude cyclic load is considered. Under the above assumptions the total retardation time is presented as a stochastic process governed by t
A statistical model for fatigue fracture under constant-amplitude cyclic loading
โ Scribed by R. Arone
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 441 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-7944
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โฆ Synopsis
A statistical approach to fatigue fracture under constant load is presented. Crack initiation due to detrimentally-acting external factors is considered, with a time-dependent rate assumed for an ensemble of growing stochastically-independent fatigue cracks. For crack increments under cyclic loading, a proportional-effect model is applied. It is shown that at low rates of surface crack initiation and low scatter of the crack increments, the median value of the fracture stress appreciably exceeds the one predicted by the deterministic model, whose estimate is conservative. At high rates and high scatter, the picture is reversed.
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