In-Service Fatigue Reliability of Structures

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.