Vehicle fatigue damage caused by road irregularities

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 391-402

  Bogsjö, Klas ^a   Rychlik, I ^b  

^a SCANIA CV AB   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Damage intensity; Rainflow damage; Road irregularities; Vehicle fatigue

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE INTENSITY; FATIGUE LIVES; NARROW BANDS; NON STATIONARIES; RAINFLOW DAMAGE; ROAD IRREGULARITIES; ROAD ROUGHNESS; ROAD SECTIONS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STANDARD STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS; VEHICLE DAMAGES;

ROADS AND STREETS; VEHICLES;

FATIGUE DAMAGE;

EID: 64849105621     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2009.01340.x     Document Type: Article

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