PROBLEMS OF EQUIVALENT LOAD AMPLITUDE IN FATIGUE LIFE CALCULATIONS

Abstract

This paper presents issues of fatigue life calculations in operational load conditions. The assumed runs were so processed as to get a set of sinusoidal cycles by using the following methods: full cycles counting method and rainflow counting method. On the basis of such sets of cycles of the varying parameters S_mi and S_ai were prepared block load spectra of equivalent amplitudes S_az, obtained with the use of an original method of these authors, in which two-parameter fatigue characteristics were applied. The work resulted in comparison of fatigue life results for load spectra determined by using the assumed cycles counting methods and the assumed two parameter fatigue characteristics: the model IM, model II, model III and model IV, respectively.