Fatigue Damage including Mean Stress

Options for including mean stress have been added to the Vibrationdata GUI package’s Fatigue Toolbox, for both stress time histories and PSDs.

Four methods are available:

Gerber
Goodman
Morrow
Soderberg

Matlab script: Vibrationdata Signal Analysis Package

Here are some charts from Iowa State University: Fatigue Mean Stress

– Tom Irvine

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