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Range-Mean-Pair Exceedances in Stationary Gaussian Processes

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Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems

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One of the most important stress (or stress intensity) parameters in fatigue is the range-(mean)-pair or rainflow count[1,2]. The distribution of rainflow amplitudes has recently been discussed by Rychlik and Lindgren[3,4,5]. However counting is more easily discussed in terms of range-pair exceedances[6], rather than occurrences, paralleling the usefulness of load exceedance counters[7] for less accurate fatigue estimates. In this paper we discuss the first passage time for an exceedance of a range-pair with fixed amplitude and mid-value.

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Ford, D.G. (1987). Range-Mean-Pair Exceedances in Stationary Gaussian Processes. In: Thoft-Christensen, P. (eds) Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83279-6_9

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