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Rainflow Counting

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.

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Rainflow Counting Algorithm
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / reliability-engineering
  • Goodman, J. (1899). Mechanics Applied to Engineering. Longman, Green and Co. · URL
  • Miner, M. A. (1945). Cumulative damage in fatigue. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 12(3), 159-164. · DOI 10.1115/1.4009458
  • Endo, T., Matsumoto, T., Hasebe, T., & Mori, K. (1974). Damage evaluation of metals for random or varying loading. Proceedings of the Symposium on Mechanical Behavior of Materials. · URL
  • ASTM International (2021). E1049-21: Standard Practices for Cycle Counting in Fatigue Analysis. · URL
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