On the Calculation of Fatigue Fracture Probability, Reliability and Life of Structural Elements

Fatigue fracture probability, reliability and life of structures are important functions in studies concerned with fatigue fractures here discussed, with an emphasis on fatigue fracture probability of metals. Following a detailed mathematical derivation a new approximate algorithm for the fatigue fracture of metals is given namely a complicate integral having a changing upper limit. Statistical theory of fatigue fracture finds here an actual application.