摘要：Predicting fatigue damage induced by vibrations is of benefit to oil and gas industry. In this paper a spectral method is developed to estimate the damage of vibration, including both deterministic and random vibration, on the fatigue life of drillstrings. The drill-string is first modeled by the continuous parameter method with two vibration modes: axial and torsional. After the vibration response is obtained, the equivalent stress spectra are calculated for any position along the drill-string, based on maximum shear stress fatigue failure criterion. The fatigue life of the drill-string at arbitrary position is then estimated by the developed spectral methods
