Lecture(Vol.50 No.3 pp.329)

Application of Reliability Engineering for Safety Design and Maintenance against Mechanical Structure and Components ‡V:Regular Inspections of Railway Vehicles and Example of Application to Safety Guarantee

Hiromichi ISHIDUKA and Makoto AKAMA

Key Words:Railway, Vehicle, Axle, Inspection, Bayesian reliability theory, Probabilistic fracture mechanics, Weibull distribution