A Study On the Rrobabilistic Nature of Fatigue Crack Propagation Life(I) -The Effect of Distribution of Initial Crack Size-

피로크랙 진전수명의 확률특성에 관한 연구 I -초기크랙길이 분포의 영향-

In order to understand the probabilistic nature of fatigue crack propagation, not only the calculation of failure probability and parameter sensitivity, but also the clarification of probabilistic nature of various parameters should be executed. Therefore a method to evalute synthetically the effect of each parameter on the distribution of fatigue crack propagation life is required. In this study, the effects of the initial crack size and other paramaters on the distribution of fatigue crack propagation life are discussed according to the appropriate normalization of the life distribution, the validity of this method is also shown. Such an investigation as the present work may be useful to understand the nature of the life distribution and to utilize the probailistic fracture mechanics.

본 연구에서는 피로크랙 진전수명에 대하여 대단히 중요한 초기 크랙 길이 분 포 및 타 파라마터의 크랙 진전수명에 미치는 영향을 폭넓게 논함과 동시에 또 이러한 영향을 손쉽게 예측할 수 있는 실용적 근사식을 제시하는 것이다.