TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - The derivation of structural usage profiles for vehicles from failure statistics
JO  - International journal of vehicle design
A1  - Wannenburg, Johann
A1  - Heyns, P. Stephan
SP  - 269
EP  - 289
VL  - 47
IS  - 1/2/3/4
N2  - A methodology is presented to derive a statistical fatigue loading profile of the total population of users of a vehicle model, from failure data recorded on the same or a previous model. The method is based on fitting a bivariate probability density function on normalised failure data. This is radically more economic than existing methods. Reasonable accuracy could be achieved, even if the failures represent only a small fraction of the total population. The two-parameter usage profile determined in this way offers a powerful approach to predict failures or derive statistically based durability test or design requirements.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0143-3369
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJVD.2008.020891
ID  - ref1
ER  -