Design of maintenance schedules for fatigue-prone metallic components using reliability-based optimization

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 199, Issue 33-36, 2010, Pages 2305-2318

  Valdebenito, M A ^a   Schueller G I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Advanced simulation techniques; Fatigue cracks; Maintenance scheduling; Reliability sensitivity; Reliability based optimization

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SIMULATION; FATIGUE CRACKS; MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING; RELIABILITY BASED OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY SENSITIVITY;

FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MAINTENANCE; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING;

CRACKS;

EID: 77953541810     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.03.028     Document Type: Article

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