In-Service Fatigue Reliability of Structures

• Main Author: Petinov, Sergei V. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 251
• Subjects: Engineering design.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Probabilities.; Technical education.; Engineering Design.; Solid Mechanics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Engineering/Technology Education.

This book provides readers with the latest know-how and tools needed to assess the in-service strength and reliability of welded structures. It addresses the two principal mechanisms of structural material deterioration, fatigue and corrosion, which affect the in-service behavior of structures. In t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Reliability of Technologies
• Service Life Prediction in the Design Phase
• Assessment of the Residual Life
• Elements of Theory of Probability
• Random Events and Random Variables
• Statistics of Random Variables. Probability Distributions
• Evaluation of Statistics of a Random Process
• Basics of Statistical Dynamics. Spectral Method
• Elements of Spectral Analysis of a Stationary Random Process
• Forced oscillations of a single degree of freedom dynamic system
• Wiener-Khinchin Theorem. Evaluation of the Output Process Statistics
• Service Loads
• Classification of Service Loads on Structures
• Service Loads - Continuous Successions. Spectral and Statistical Characrerization
• Spectral Characterization of Loads
• Fatigue Behavior of Materials and Structural Components
• Fatigue Characterization of Structural Materials
• Principles of Modeling Fatigue Behavior of Structures
• Current Approaches to Fatigue of Structures in Design and in Service Conditions
• Numerical Examples
• Residual Life Assessment of Structures when Fatigue Cracks are Detected
• Effect of Fatigue Cracks on the Service Life Assessment of Structures
• Modeling of Fatigue Crack Propagation in Structures
• Evaluation of Residual Life Numerical Examples
• Criteria for Critical Conditions of Structures
• Instable Fracture of Cracked Structures
• Griffith-Irvin Theory. Experimental Evaluation of Criteria for Fracture
• Alternative Approaches to Fatigue Life Assessment of Structures
• The Damage Accumulation Methodology in Conjunction with the FE-modeling
• The Prospects of Combining the Damage Accumulation and Linear Fracture Mechanics Methodologies
• Numerical Examples
• Principles of Organizing the In-Service Reliability of Structures
• Techniques of Experimental Evaluation of the Reliability Parameters
• Principles of Monitoring the In-Service Reliability of Structures.