A Study on the parameter estimation for crack growth prediction under variable amplitude loading
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Abstract
Bayesian formulation is presented to address the parameters estimation under uncertainty in the crack growth prediction subjected to variable amplitude loading. Huang's model is employed to describe the retardation and acceleration of the crack growth during the loadings. Model parameters are estimated in probabilistic way and updated conditional on the measured data by Bayesian inference. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is employed for efficient sampling of the parameter distributions. As the model under variable amplitude loading is more complex, the conventional MCMC often fails to converge to the equilibrium distribution due to the increased number of parameters and correlations. An improved MCMC is introduced to overcome this failure, in which marginal PDF is employed as a proposal density function. A center- cracked panel under a mode I loading is considered for the feasibility study. Parameters are estimated based on the data from specimen tests. Prediction is carried out afterwards under variable amplitude loading for the same specimen, and validated by the ground truth data.
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Crack Growth, prognostics and health management (PHM), Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), Variable amplitude loading
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