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Probabilistic Fatigue Life Prediction and Inspection of Railroad Wheels
Technical Paper
2007-01-1658
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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A general methodology for fatigue reliability analysis and inspection 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 authors. The life prediction is validated with field data. A methodology for calculating the optimized inspection schedule of railroad wheels is then developed using the reliability methodology. The optimized inspection scheduling methodology combines clustering analysis, to identify critical samples, reliability analysis, to calculate the expected life of the critical samples, and reliability-based optimization into an overall methodology which optimizes the inspection schedule. The proposed methodology minimizes the number of wheels inspected while at the same time maintaining or exceeding the desired reliability of the population.
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Liu, Y., Stratman, B., Liu, L., and Mahadevan, S., "Probabilistic Fatigue Life Prediction and Inspection of Railroad Wheels," SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-1658, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-1658.Also In
Reliability and Robust Design in Automotive Engineering, 2007
Number: SP-2119; Published: 2007-04-16
Number: SP-2119; Published: 2007-04-16
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