Journal
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume 93, Issue 3, Pages 456-467Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.12.021
Keywords
stochastic; rolling contact fatigue; multiaxial fatigue; reliability
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A general methodology for fatigue reliability degradation of railroad wheels is proposed in this paper. Both fatigue crack initiation and crack propagation life are included in the proposed methodology using previously developed multiaxial fatigue models by the same authors. A response surface method in conjunction with design of experiments is used to develop a closed form approximation of the fatigue damage accumulation with respect to the input random variables. The total fatigue life of railroad wheels under stochastic loading is simulated, accounting for the spatial and temporal randomness of the fatigue damage. The field observations of railroad wheel fatigue failures are compared with the numerical predictions using the proposed methodology. (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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