Mean Stress Value in Spectral Method for the Determination of Fatigue Life

The paper presents a proposal of account of mean stress value in the process of the determination of the fatigue life, using the spectral method. The existing approaches have been described and some chosen stress models used to take into account the influence of the mean value in the process of the determination of fatigue life have been introduced. Those models, referring to their linear character, have been used to determine the power spectral density function (PSD) of the transformed stress taking into account the mean value. The method introduced by the authors allows a wide usage of many formulas used to predict the fatigue life by means of the spectral method.