Fatigue crack initiation life prediction
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Yongming Liu; Brant Stratman; Sankaran Mahadevan
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Article
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2006
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Elsevier Science
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English
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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