Review of life assessment techniques applied to dynamically loaded automotive components

Computers and Structures

Volumn 80, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 481-494

  Haiba, M ^a   Barton, D C ^a   Brooks, P C ^a   Levesley, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatigue life; Finite element analysis; Life assessment techniques; Structural optimisation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; FATIGUE TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

FATIGUE LIFE ASSESMENT; TRANSIENT DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL LOADS;

EID: 0036501165     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(02)00022-6     Document Type: Article

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