A determination of the scatter of fatigue strength of mild steel at the fatigue limit. I. Use of the staircase analysis for the evaluation of mean strength at the fatigue limit (E-608)

1. The object of this work is to determine the scatter of fatigue strength at the fatigue limit for mild steel W?hler specimens, and to analyse the results on the basis of the Normal (Gaussian), Extreme Value and other statistical distributions. It will also be possible incidentally to investigate the...