Reliability-Based
Mechanical Design,
Volume 2
Component under Cyclic Load
and Dimension Design with
Required Reliability
Xiaobin Le
Synthesis Lectures on
Mechanical Engineering
XIAOBIN LE
RELIABILITYBASED MECHANICAL DESIGN, VOL. 2
MORGAN & CLAYPOOL
Synthesis Lectures on
Mechanical Engineering
Reliability-Based Mechanical Design, Volume 2
Component under Cyclic Load and Dimension Design with Required Reliability
Xiaobin Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology
A component will not be reliable unless it is designed with required reliability. Reliability-Based
Mechanical Design uses the reliability to link all design parameters of a component together to form
a limit state function for mechanical design. is design methodology uses the reliability to replace
the factor of safety as a measure of the safe status of a component. e goal of this methodology
is to design a mechanical component with required reliability and at the same time, quantitatively
indicates the failure percentage of the component. Reliability-Based Mechanical Design consists of
two separate books: Volume 1: Component under Static Load, and Volume 2: Component under Cyclic
Load and Dimension Design with Required Reliability.
is book begins with a systematic description of a cyclic load.en, the books use two probabilistic
fatigue theories to establish the limit state function of a component under cyclic load, and further to
present how to calculate the reliability of a component under a cyclic loading spectrum. Finally, the
book presents how to conduct dimension design of typical components such as bar, pin, shaft, beam
under static load, or cyclic loading spectrum with required reliability. Now, the designed component
will be reliable because it has been designed with the required reliability.
e book presents many examples for each topic and provides a wide selection of exercise problems
at the end of each chapter. is book is written as a textbook for senior mechanical engineering
students after they study the course Design of Machine Elements or a similar course. is book is also
a good reference for design engineers and presents design methods in such sucient detail that those
methods are readily used in the design.
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Series ISSN: 2573-3168