Mechanical Reliability SimulationJianfeng Xu, Yalian Xie, Dan Xu Shanghai Institute of Process Automation Instrumentation Shanghai, PRC Abstract — This article provides a numerical method to simulate the reliability of a complicated mechanical system with multiple input random parameters
The method bases on the theory of mechanical reliability and uses a commercial FEM software, ANSYS
The quantitative reliability of the mechanical system is obtained by Monte Carlo simulation
The method is verified by theoretical analysis and is applied to a real structure
This method has prevented the tedious mathematical calculation and is more economical than experimental methods
It can be used as a complement of traditional experimental methods
Keywords— Mechanical Reliability; Finite ElementMethod