Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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831614 | Materials & Design (1980-2015) | 2011 | 11 Pages |
The present study concerns development of accelerated fatigue design time based finite element analysis (FEA) through a combination of the fatigue data editing (FDE) technique and FEA. Country road, pavement and highway fatigue data histories were collected using a fatigue data acquisition system. The component durability was evaluated using both original and editing fatigue data signals. Both signals showed a large difference in the CPU time. Furthermore, the histories were successfully edited by presenting the predicted amount of the fatigue damage as the original histories. As a consequence of application for automotive lower suspension arm, this technique can be applied in performing a fatigue history editing, especially in compression of data set. Briefly, design time was saved based on FDE technique associated with FEA.