Stochastic fatigue crack growth in steel structures subject to random loading

Structural reliability evaluation considering capacity degradation over time

“…(iii) Fatigue is one of the most common damage types that may occur when structures are subjected to repetitive or cyclic load patterns. Fatigue damage begins with cracks that initiate in structural elements, and may continue with their growth and with initiation of other cracks [12][13][14].…”

Fatigue failure analysis of stay cables with initial defects: Ewijk bridge case study

“…Probabilistic fracture mechanics has proven to be an effective method in the failure assessment of bridge structures and components, e.g. [5][6][7][8].…”

Stochastic Modeling of Deterioration Processes through Dynamic Bayesian Networks

“…Fatigue crack growth has frequently been modeled by a random process model (Ortiz and Kiremidjian 1988;Lin and Yang 1985;Yang and Manning 1996;Zheng and Ellingwood 1998;Beck and Melchers 2004). To demonstrate the applicability of the DBN framework for such models, the model suggested by Yang and Manning (1996) is utilized in a numerical example.…”