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Palmgren Miners Rule

Assume that, during the service life, we have 500 loadings of type 1 (defined by mid-value and magnitude), 1000 loadings of type 2 and 10000 loadings of type 3 The Palmgren Miner rule states that failure occurs when

a
1

2 3
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 N
I n i i =1 Ni
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

where ni is the number of applied load cycles of type i, and Ni is the pertinent fatigue life

ni N =1 i =1 i

500 103 10 4 = 3+ 5+ = 0.51 < 1 10 10

Damage Accumulation
Anders Ekberg

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Damage
Define the damage induced in the i:th load cycle as

1 Di = Ni
Then, Palmgren Miners rule states that fatigue failure occurs when
i =1 I

Di =1

Note that, in this case, the accumulation is made for all load cycles and not all types of load cycles The previous example can then be expressed as
i =1

Di =500 10 3 + 103 10 5 + 10 4 10 = 0.51 < 1

Whether to accumulate damage or fatigue life is just a matter of convenience

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Damage Accumulation

Anders Ekberg