Predicting fatigue lives for bi-modal stress spectral densities

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-21

  Fu, T T ^a   Cebon, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

STRESS SPECTRAL DENSITY;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0033898695     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-1123(99)00113-9     Document Type: Article

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