Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 42-53Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2013.08.005
Keywords
E-N curves; Weibull distribution; Real-valued genetic algorithm; Differential ant-stigmergy algorithm; AlSi9Cu3 alloy
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We present an approach for estimating E-N curves and their scatter. The scatter of a number of load cycles to failure at an arbitrary amplitude-strain level is modelled using a two-parametric Weibull distribution with the constant shape parameter beta and the scale parameter eta dependent on the strain amplitude by the Coffin-Manson equation. In this way the E-N curve and its scatter can be described using five parameters: the four parameters of the Coffin-Manson equation for the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution and the shape parameter of the Weibull distribution. The objective was to estimate these five parameters, which are generally unknown (since the data from the literature are manly known only for the median E-N curves), on the basis of the known fatigue-life data to obtain not only the trend of the E-N curve, but also its scatter. In order to estimate these parameters on the basis of the fatigue-life data, two evolutionary algorithms were applied: a real-valued genetic algorithm (GA) and the differential antstigmergy algorithm (DASA). In the article a mathematical background of the approach is presented and applied to 27 test cases of simulated fatigue-life data and one real case of experimentally obtained fatigue-life data. The results are analysed and discussed. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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