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A Fatigue Reliability Distribution Based on Probabilistic Micromechanics

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The first portion of this paper reviews the probabilistic micromechanics techniques of converting the effects of various microdamage mechanisms, attributable to the eventual fatigue failure of industrially important metals, into an analytic form that is numerically tractable. Following from this micro-structural approach, both theoretical and experimental justifications of a new fatigue reliability distribution are presented. Finally, the interrelations between this micromechanics fatigue life distribution and several of the common empirical expressions describing the observed scatter in fatigue data are discussed.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, H3A 2K6

    J. W. Provan

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  1. Institute of Fracture and Solid Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

    G. C. Sih

  2. Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    H. Zorski

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Provan, J.W. (1982). A Fatigue Reliability Distribution Based on Probabilistic Micromechanics. In: Sih, G.C., Zorski, H. (eds) Defects and Fracture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7520-3_6

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