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The reliability of elastic beams under a Poissonian stream of moving random loads is still a subject of intensive research. In particular, the assumption of Gaussianity of the responses is highly questionable for short beams and/or low arrival intensities. As a consequence reliability predictions with respect to extreme value or fatigue failure are inaccurate. In the paper analytical results for the response moments up to fourth order will be derived for different types of motion of the stream of moving loads. The results are then used in studies for extreme and fatigue failure employing Winterstein’s expansion of non-Gaussian processes in terms of higher moments. The effect of important parameters, i.e., arrival intensity, velocity, damping ratio is investigated
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Zibdeh, H.S., Rackwitz, R. (1995). Reliability Considerations of Beams Subjected to Random Moving Loads. In: Rackwitz, R., Augusti, G., Borri, A. (eds) Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34866-7_33
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