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Probabilistic Analysis for Comparing Fatigue Data Based on Johnson-Weibull ParametersLeonard Johnson published a methodology for establishing the confidence that two populations of data are different. Johnson's methodology is dependent on limited combinations of test parameters (Weibull slope, mean life ratio, and degrees of freedom) and a set of complex mathematical equations. In this report, a simplified algebraic equation for confidence numbers is derived based on the original work of Johnson. The confidence numbers calculated with this equation are compared to those obtained graphically by Johnson. Using the ratios of mean life, the resultant values of confidence numbers at the 99 percent level deviate less than 1 percent from those of Johnson. At a 90 percent confidence level, the calculated values differ between +2 and 4 percent. The simplified equation is used to rank the experimental lives of three aluminum alloys (AL 2024, AL 6061, and AL 7075), each tested at three stress levels in rotating beam fatigue, analyzed using the Johnson- Weibull method, and compared to the ASTM Standard (E739 91) method of comparison. The ASTM Standard did not statistically distinguish between AL 6061 and AL 7075. However, it is possible to rank the fatigue lives of different materials with a reasonable degree of statistical certainty based on combined confidence numbers using the Johnson- Weibull analysis. AL 2024 was found to have the longest fatigue life, followed by AL 7075, and then AL 6061. The ASTM Standard and the Johnson-Weibull analysis result in the same stress-life exponent p for each of the three aluminum alloys at the median, or L(sub 50), lives
Document ID
20130014032
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Technical Publication (TP)
Authors
Vlcek, Brian L.
(Georgia Southern Univ. Statesboro, GA, United States)
Hendricks, Robert C.
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Zaretsky, Erwin V.
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 2013
Subject Category
Statistics And Probability
Report/Patent Number
E-16056-2
NASA/TP-2013-217633
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Country: United States
Start Date: September 4, 2007
End Date: September 7, 2007
Sponsors: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 561581.02.07.03
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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