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ARTICLE IN PRESS Reliability Engineering and System Safety ] (]]]]) ]]]–]]] /locate/ress Multiaxial fatigue reliability analysis of railroad wheels Yongming Liu, Liming Liu, Brant Stratman, Sankaran Mahadevan Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Box 6077-B, 306 Jacobs Hall, Nashville TN 37235, USA Accepted 11 December 2006 Abstract A general methodology for fatigue reliability degradation of railroad wheels is proposed in this paper. Both fatigue crack initiation and crack propagation life are included in the proposed methodology using previously developed multiaxial fatigue models by the same authors. A response surface method in conjunction with design of experiments is used to develop a closed form approximation of the fatigue damage accumulation with respect to the input random variables. The total fatigue life of railroad wheels under stochastic loading is simulated, accounting for the spatial and temporal randomness of the fatigue damage. The field observations of railroad wheel fatigue failures are compared with the numerical predictions using the proposed methodology. r 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: Stochastic; Rolling contact fatigue; Multiaxial fatigue; Reliability 1. Introduction subsurface-initiated failure can destroy the wheel’s integrity and thus is more dangerous. Subsurface-initiated failure, Damage accumulation due to fatigue, plastic deforma-