Multiaxial fatigue reliability analysis of railroad wheels

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 456-467

  Liu, Yongming ^a   Liu, Liming ^a   Stratman, Brant ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiaxial fatigue; Reliability; Rolling contact fatigue; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LOCOMOTIVES; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WHEELS;

MULTIAXIAL FATIGUE; RAILROAD WHEEL; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 35348954850     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.12.021     Document Type: Article

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