Abstract: In probabilistic design, it is common practice to use two parameter statistical models (e.g., normal, lognormal) to describe random design factors. However, given a random sample of data, it ...

Abstract: Structures dominated by dynamic tensile loads are vulnerable to failure by fatigue and/or fracture. Failure in one member of a redundant structure produces transient dynamic loads in the remaining intact members, with the ...

Abstract: A fatigue design procedure is proposed for the structural elements subjected to a stress process, modeled as stationary wide-band gaussian. This procedure, restricted to high cycle fatigue design, ...

Abstract: Use of the Type 1 Extreme Value Distribution of Maxima to design engineering problems is reviewed. Results of a Monte Carlo study of the statistical behavior of the distribution parameter ...

Abstract: A probablistic approach to the correlation and extrapolation of creep–rupture data is presented. Time–temperature parameters (TTP) are used to correlate the data, and an analytical expression for ...

Abstract: A general statistical model for fatigue under stationary random gaussian stress is presented. This phenomenological model requires only a limited amount of data from fatigue tests in which ...

Abstract: Approximate solutions to the general structural reliability problem, i.e., computing probabilities of complicated functions of random variables, can be obtained efficiently by the fast probability ...

Abstract: Static and dynamic testing performed on steel beer and soda cans has indicated that the cans, when loaded along the longitudinal axis, possess mechanical properties ideal for shock absorption. ...

Abstract: A tension leg platform (TLP) tendon system experiences oscillatory tensile stresses, and therefore is vulnerable to fatigue and fracture. Because design factors have significant uncertainty, a ...

Abstract: Fatigue (S-N) data exhibit relatively large scatter. For design purposes, an S-N curve that characterizes fatigue strength is required. This curve should lie on the lower, or safe, side of the ...