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Stochastic Diffusion Models for Fatigue Crack Growth and Reliability Estimation

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Stochastic Approach to Fatigue

Part of the book series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ((CISM,volume 334))

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Crack propagation is a major task in the design and life prediction of fatigue-critical structures such as aircraft, offshore platforms, bridges, etc. Experimental data indicate that fatigue crack propagation involves a large amount of statistical variation and is not adequately modeled deterministically. The lectures presented herein discuss the basic analysis and use of fracture mechanics-based random process fatigue crack growth models that can be represented by Markov diffusion processes. For completeness, the random variable models are presented as a special case of the random process models. The use of the models in fatigue reliability estimation is also discussed.

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Spencer, B.F. (1993). Stochastic Diffusion Models for Fatigue Crack Growth and Reliability Estimation. In: Sobczyk, K. (eds) Stochastic Approach to Fatigue. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 334. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2622-6_6

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