An improved method for estimating fatigue life under combined stress

Abstract

The paper deals with a complicated problem of estimating fatigue lives of machine parts exposed to various kinds of dynamic loading. An origin of the presented method can be found 25 years ago when a simple algorithm of strain energy density cumulation was applied for evaluation of uniaxial harmonic and random fatigue tests. Recently, the method has been adopted for multiaxial loading. Unfortunately, results of its application have shown rather big variance. This paper presents the improved method, which yields much lower scattering of estimated fatigue lives compared with earlier approaches.