A Reliability Assessment Method in Strain-Based Fatigue Life Analysis

Abstract

For the purpose of fatigue reliability assessment based on strain-life analysis, a family of reliability-defined ε-Nf curves, called R-ε-Nf curves, is constructed by considering the interference model of fatigue strain capacity and applied strain history. The main effort of this work is to define reliability factors which are used to modify the conventional ε-Nf curve into a family of R-ε-Nf curves. A major contribution of this paper is to define two “unique” reliability factors, one for elastic-strain-life relation and the other for plastic-strain-life relation, for a certain reliability by using an empirical ε-Nf curve.