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	Comptage Rainflow	Méthode de Fiabilité d'Ordre Deux (SORM)
Domaine	Ingénierie de la fiabilité	Ingénierie de la fiabilité
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1974	1979
Auteur d'origine	Tatsuo Endo	Bernd Fiessler
Type	Cycle counting algorithm	Reliability analysis method
Source fondatrice	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.
Alias	Rainflow cycle counting, RFC	SORM, Second-order approximation
Apparentées	4	4
Résumé	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.