Here is a paper. Estimating Fatigue Damage from Stress Power Spectral Density Functions: estimate_fatigue_psd.pdf Note that the duration for the example in the paper was 600 sec. * * * This following Matlab program calculates the cumulative rainflow fatigue damage for an input stress PSD… Read more
Here is an empirical method for directing calculating a fatigue damage spectrum from a shock response spectrum: srs_fds.pdf * * * See also: Using Random Vibration Testing to Cover Shock Requirements – Tom Irvine
Aerospace and military components must be designed and tested to withstand shock and vibration environments. Some of this testing occurs as qualification, whereby a sample component is tested to levels much higher than those which it would otherwise encounter in the field. This is done… Read more
There is an occasional need to compare the effects of two different power spectral density (PSD) base input functions for a particular component. This would be the case if the component has already been tested to one PSD but now must be subjected to a… Read more
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 The leading news story the last few days has been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which mysteriously disappeared on March 8, 2014, somewhere over the South China Sea or perhaps the Strait of Malacca. The aircraft was a Boeing 777-200ER. The cause… Read more
Question: What is meant exactly by “fatigue exponent”. I generally input a value between 3 (for notched parts) and 6 (for (unnotched ones). Is it right?…I’ve found confusing and contrasting definitions about b and m exponent (among MIL-STD-810 G and various other documents) Answer:… Read more
A number of methods have been derived for performing rainflow cycle counting for a response PSD. Note that they tend to be conservative. The Dirlik method is an example of a semi-empirical method for cycle identification. A Matlab script for performing this method is given… Read more
Consider a single-degree-of-freedom system subjected to base excitation where the input is an arbitrary time history. The response of the system can be calculated via a digital recursive filtering relationship, which is the numerical engine embedded in the SRS calculation. This is done for… Read more
I will be teaching two tutorial sessions at: 84th Shock & Vibration Symposium November 3-7, 2013 Atlanta, GA The sessions are: Shock Response Spectra and Time History Synthesis Rainflow Cycle Counting for Random Vibration Fatigue Analysis You are invited to participate. Further information is given… Read more
Consider a single-degree-of-freedom system subject to base excitation. Assume a case where the base input is a sine tone which must be converted to an “equivalent” narrowband PSD. The narrowband PSD must be greater than or equal to the sine tone in terms of peak… Read more