A stochastic systems approach to fatigue reliability - An application to Ti-6Al-4V

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 687-706

  Farhangdoost, Khalil ^a   Provan, James W ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CLOSURE LOGNORMAL STOCHASTIC PROCESS; MCGILL MARKOV STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

TITANIUM ALLOYS;

CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACKS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0030088382     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00131-X     Document Type: Article

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