Methoden vergleichen

	Rainflow-Zählung	Second-Order Reliability Method (SORM)
Fachgebiet	Zuverlässigkeitstechnik	Zuverlässigkeitstechnik
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1974	1979
Urheber	Tatsuo Endo	Bernd Fiessler
Typ	Cycle counting algorithm	Reliability analysis method
Wegweisende Quelle	Goodman, J. (1899). Mechanics Applied to Engineering. Longman, Green and Co.	Fiessler, B., Neumann, H. J., & Rackwitz, R. (1979). Quadratic limit states in structural reliability. Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, 105(4), 661-676.
Aliasnamen	Rainflow cycle counting, RFC	SORM, Second-order approximation
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	Rainflow counting is a fatigue cycle counting method that converts a complex stress history into individual cycles for damage assessment. Developed by Tatsuo Endo and colleagues in 1974, it provides the most physically realistic representation of fatigue damage when combined with Miner's linear cumulative damage hypothesis. The algorithm has become the industry standard in reliability engineering and vibration analysis.	The Second-Order Reliability Method (SORM) is an extension of FORM that improves failure probability estimates by accounting for the curvature of the limit-state surface at the design point. Introduced by Fiessler, Neumann, and Rackwitz in 1979, SORM provides more accurate approximations for nonlinear failure surfaces while remaining computationally efficient. It has become the standard refinement when FORM accuracy is insufficient.