Development of a reliability-based fatigue life model for gas turbine engine structures

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 807-828

  Tryon, Robert G ^a   Cruse, Thomas A ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; FATIGUE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TURBINES-GAS;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

FATIGUE PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD (FORM);

GAS TURBINES;

EID: 0030088379     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00138-7     Document Type: Article

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