Non-local stress approach for fatigue assessment based on weakest-link theory and statistics of extremes

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1214-1227

  Wormsen, Anders ^a   Sjodin B ^b   Harkegard G ^a   Fjeldstad, A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Block maximum method; Defects; Effective stress amplitude; Finite element analysis; Finite element post processor; Statistics of extremes; Stress field; Surface effect; Volume effect; Weakest link model

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; FATIGUE DAMAGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

BLOCK MAXIMUM METHOD; EFFECTIVE STRESS AMPLITUDE; NON-LOCAL STRESS APPROACH; STATISTICS OF EXTREMES; WEAKEST-LINK THEORY;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549006580     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2007.01190.x     Document Type: Article

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