Reliability-Based Mechanical Design, Volume 2: Component under Cyclic Load and Dimension Design with Required Reliability (Synthesis Lectures on Mechanical Engineering)

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. This design methodology uses the reliability to replace the factor of safety as a measure of the safe status of a component. The 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.

This book is Reliability-Based Mechanical Design, Volume 2: Component under Cyclic Load and Dimension Design with Required Reliability. It begins with a systematic description of a cyclic load. Then, 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. The book presents many examples for each topic and provides a wide selection of exercise problems at the end of each chapter. This book is written as a textbook for senior mechanical engineering students after they study the course Design of Machine Elements or a similar course. This book is also a good reference for design engineers and presents design methods in such sufficient detail that those methods are readily used in the design.

Xiaobin Le, Ph.D., P.E., received a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1982 and an MS in Mechanical Engineering in 1987 from Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi. He received his first Ph.D. in Mechanical Design of Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, in 1993, and his second Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics of Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, in 2002.

He is currently a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. His teaching and research interests are Computer-Aided Design, Mechanical Design, Finite Element Analysis, Fatigue Design, Solid Mechanics, Engineering Reliability, and Engineering Education Research.