Methodology for strain-based fatigue reliability analysis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 205-213

  Zhao, Y X ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PIPE JOINTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRAIN;

COFFIN-MANSON THEORIES; CYCLIC STRESS-STRAIN (CSS) RESPONSES;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0034325019     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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