Scientific programme for the workshop Statistical Methods in Fatigue of Materials, SP, Borås, March 29 - April 1 1998

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Social Activities

  • Sunday March 29, 19.00:
  • Welcome reception and registration.
  • Monday March 30, 17.45:
  • Visit at SP Mechanics laboratories.
  • Tuesday March 31, lunch:
  • Mini train excursion. (10 min walk)
  • Tuesday March 31,19.30:
  • Conference dinner.

    Scientific programme

    Sunday

    Time
    Programme: Textilmuséet, Borås
    19.00-20.30 Registration and Welcome reception

    Monday

    Time
    Programme: Introduction (Chairman: Jacques de Maré)
    8.30-9.00 Registration
    9.00-9.10 Hans Andersson: Opening remarks.
     9.10-10.00 Tim Topper: Fatigue Research Today - Crack Closure and Short Crack Growth in notched Components
    10.00-10.20 Coffee
    10.20-11.00 Georg Lindgren: Random loads, randomness of materials, structural randomness - can the pieces be put together?
    11.00-11.10 Pause
    10.10-11.30 Jack Samuelsson: Fatigue design of construction equipment
    11.30-12.20 Discussion of the previous talks. Opened by Fred Nilsson and Olle Nerman.
    12.20-12.30 Administrative messages.
    12.30-13.50 Lunch
     
    Programme: Fatigue resistance, randomness of materials (Chairman: Sture Holm)
    13.50-14.40 Yukitaka Murakami: Causes of Scatter of Fatigue Strength
    14.40-15.00 Thomas Svensson: The fatigue limit as a random variable
    15.00-15.30 Coffee
    15.30-15.50 Stefano Beretta: The problem of defect analysis in fatigue strength estimation
    15.50-16.10 Arne Melander: On the effect of inclusions on fatigue properties of hard steels
    16.10-16.20 Pause
    16.20-16.40 Gary Marquis: Natural defects and their influence on the endurance limit of spheroidal graphite cast iron
    16.40-17.00 Patrik Rydén: Estimators of Risk Functions of Tensile Strengths of Wires and Their Deviations
    17.00-17.40 Discussion of the previous talks. Opened by Sven Erick Alm and Boel Wadman.

    Tuesday

    Time
    Programme: Fatigue assessment and safety considerations (1) (Chairman: Stefano Beretta)
    9.00-9.50 André Bignonnet: Fatigue Assessment in Automotive Industry
     9.50-10.00 Pause
    10.00-10.20 Michel Huther: Fatigue Assessment of Ship Structure Details
    10.20-10.40 Lennart Josefson: Fatigue life and crack closure in specimens subject to variable amplitude loads under plane strain
    10.40-11.10 Coffee
    11.10-11.30 Mikael Fermér: Fatigue Life Prediction of Welded Thin Sheet Structures
    11.30-12.10 Discussion of the previous talks. Opened by Bo Bergman and Hans Andersson.
    12.10-12.50 Mini Train Excursion (10 min walk, bring good shoes)
    12.50-14.00 Lunch
     
    Programme: Fatigue actions, random loads (Chairman: Tim Topper)
    14.00-14.50 Mike Brown: Modelling and scatter in random loading multiaxial fatigue
    14.50-15.10 Sture Holm: Nonparametric methods using concave/convex functions - a tool for fatigue problems?
    15.10-15.30 Pär Johannesson: Rainflow Matrix for Switching Random Loads
    15.30-16.00 Coffee
    16.00-16.20 Steen Krenk: Spectral Density and Higher Harmonics in Non-Linear Random Response
    16.20-16.40 Igor Rychlik: Rainflow Cycles, Markov Chains and Electrical Circuits
    16.40-17.00 Stefan Stefanov: A model by Swedish authors and the integral method - A new approach to fatigue life prediction
    17.00-17.40 Discussion of the previous talks. Opened by Niklas Järvstråt and Mats Rudemo.
    19.30- Conference dinner

    Wednesday

    Time
    Programme: Fatigue resistance - random loads and material variability (Chairman: Igor Rychlik)
    9.00-9.50 Narayanaswam Ranganathan: Fatigue crack propagation under spectrum loading and modelling material behaviour
     9.50-10.00 Pause
    10.00-10.20 Krzysztof Dolinski: Effect of overloading trains on fatigue lifetime
    10.20-10.40 Hubert Bomas: Application of a Weakest Link Concept to the Fatigue Limit of Hard Steels
    10.40-11.10 Coffee
    11.10-11.30 Björn Sjödin: A Non-Local Theory for Assessment of Multiaxial High Cycle Fatigue Failure
    11.30-11.50 Yuri Belyaev: Load-Sharing Models, Related to Daniel's Model
    11.50-12.30 Discussion of the previous talks. Opened by Steen Krenk and Holger Rootzén.
    12.30-13.50 Lunch
     
    Programme: Fatigue assessment and safety considerations (2) (Chairman: Thomas Svensson)
    13.50-14.10 Geng Sheng Wang: Statistical analysis of fatigue crack growth based on small crack growth data and crack closure model
    14.10-14.30 Timo Mikkola: Hot spot stress analysis by shell element models
    14.30-14.50 Coffee
    14.50-15.40 Anders Blom: The philosophy of fatigue management in advanced engineering structures
    15.40-16.00 Jacques de Maré: Closing remarks

    Contact persons

  • Jacques de Maré
  • Boel Wadman
  • Marianne Pettersson

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