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Chengji Mi, Wentai Li, Xuewen Xiao, Jinhua Liu and Xingzu Ming
A large number of sample data is needed to ascertain the characteristic parameters of traditional membership function, so that the calculated fuzzy fatigue reliability based on this method has certain errors for engineering structures without enough samp...
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Jian-Xiong Gao, Fei Heng, Yi-Ping Yuan and Yuan-Yuan Liu
Fatigue damage accumulation will not only cause the degradation of material performance but also lead to the growth of effective stress and critical stiffness. However, the existing fatigue reliability models usually ignore the effective stress growth an...
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Arman Kakaie, C. Guedes Soares, Ahmad Kamal Ariffin and Wonsiri Punurai
A fracture mechanics-based fatigue reliability analysis of a submarine pipeline is investigated using the Bayesian approach. The proposed framework enables the estimation of the reliability level of submarine pipelines based on limited experimental data....
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Jianxing Yu, Fucheng Wang, Yang Yu, Haoda Li, Xin Liu and Ruoke Sun
Multilayer composite flexible risers have been widely used in engineering. However, this type of structure is complex, as there are influences between layers. Moreover, a range of uncertain factors need to be considered in fatigue analysis. Therefore, it...
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Peter Kote? and Josef Vican
During the years of bridge exploitation, many degradation processes and external influences attack its structure. Therefore, bridge reliability and durability is decreasing in time. On the other hand, the traffic load remains almost the same or even high...
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Alejandro Molina, Manuel R. Piña-Monarrez and Jesús M. Barraza-Contreras
In this paper a Weibull methodology to determine the probabilistic percentiles for the S-N curve of the A572 Gr. 50 steel is formulated. The given Weibull/S-N formulation is based on the true stress and true strain values, which are both determined from ...
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Sima Rastayesh, Amol Mankar, John Dalsgaard Sørensen and Sajjad Bahrebar
This paper presents recent contributions to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network titled INFRASTAR (Innovation and Networking for Fatigue and Reliability Analysis of Structures-Training for Assessment of Risk) in the field of reliability...
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Sergio Márquez-Domínguez and John D. Sørensen
Consequences of failure of offshore wind turbines (OWTs) is in general lower than consequences of failure of, e.g., oil & gas platforms. It is reasonable that lower fatigue design factors can be applied for fatigue design of OWTs when compared to other f...
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Gaiya Feng, Jiongran Wen and Chengwei Fei
To achieve the low-cycle fatigue (LCF) lifetime prediction and reliability estimation of turbine blisks, a Marine Predators Algorithm (MPA)-based Kriging (MPA-Kriging) method is developed by introducing the MPA into the Kriging model. To obtain the optim...
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Mengxue Wu, Jin Zhu, Junlin Heng and Sakdirat Kaewunruen
The present study attempts to predict the fatigue life of the suspenders through the incorporation of in-situ monitoring data into the proposed analytical coupled traffic-bridge-wind platform. The new findings highlight the importance of both wind load a...
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Tessa Gordelier, David Parish, Philipp R. Thies and Lars Johanning
Highly-dynamic floating bodies such as wave energy convertors require mooring lines with particular mechanical properties; the mooring system must achieve adequate station keeping whilst controlling mooring tensions within acceptable limits. Optimised co...
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Ying Xuan, Zhuangning Xie, Lele Zhang and Qiusheng Li
Equivalent load cycle sequence (ELCS) is important basic information to know that affects the reliability of the evaluation of wind-induced fatigue on metal roof claddings. In this study, an estimation method of wind-induced fatigue of metal roof claddin...
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Andrea Spagnoli
This Special Issue covers the broad topic of structural integrity of non-metallic materials, and it is concerned with the modelling, assessment and reliability of structural elements of any scale. In particular, the articles being contained in this issue...
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Sam D. Weller, Philipp R. Thies, Tessa Gordelier and Lars Johanning
Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) are a widely used metric of technology maturity and risk for marine renewable energy (MRE) devices. To-date, a large number of device concepts have been proposed which have reached the early validation stages of develop...
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Kasumi Morita, Masashi Mouri, Riccardo Fincato and Seiichiro Tsutsumi
This paper investigates the fatigue cyclic deformation behavior of mid-carbon steel. Uniaxial tensile loading tests and fatigue tests under constant and multi-step amplitude loading steps are performed to characterize the influence of loading history. Th...
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Zhiping Zeng, Ji Hu, Xudong Huang, Weidong Wang, Zhibin Huang, Abdulmumin Ahmed Shuaibu, Yu Yuan, Zhonglin Xie and Xianfeng He
To meet the transportation requirements of heavy-haul trains, it is necessary to consider the use of prestressed reinforced concrete ballastless tracks. Therefore, the CRTSIII SBT (China Railway Track System III-type slab ballastless track) has been cons...
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Kai Liu, Fangli Wang, Wei Pan, Le Yang, Shuwei Bai, Qiang Zhu and Mingbo Tong
In order to determine the average behavior time of widespread fatigue damage (WFD) in an aircraft multi-site damage (MSD) structure and complete the fatigue analysis of WFD sensitive parts, this paper adopts a probabilistic method to analyze the crack in...
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Xuedong Shao, Bowen Zheng, Zhenhao Luo and Zhenghe Song
As off-road vehicles, in addition to field transportation, another vital function of agricultural tractors is to provide power for field machinery. Therefore, the dynamic performance of the power take-off (PTO) driveline directly affects the field reliab...
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Sayyid Zainal Abidin Syed Ahmad, Mohd Khairi Abu Husain, Noor Irza Mohd Zaki, Nurul Azizah Mukhlas, Ezanizam Mat Soom, Nurul Uyun Azman and Gholamhossein Najafian
Offshore installations must be built to resist fatigue as well as extreme forces caused by severe environmental conditions. The structural reliability analysis is the popular practise to assess a variety of natural waves determined by the long-term proba...
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Leonid Berezin, Mykola Rubanka, Alla Rubanka, Yurii Kovalov, Serhii Pleshko
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The questions of design maintenance of a given fatigue longevity of rods of complex form during the intensification of load modes without changing of geometric, inertial and rigidity parameters of roads are considered. The study is conducted on the examp...
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