Guide To Load Analysis For Durability In Vehicle Engineering

Par Johannesson received his PhD in Mathematical Statistics in 1999 at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, with a thesis on statistical load analysis for fatigue. During 2000 and 2001 he had a position as PostDoc at Mathematical Statistics, Chalmers within a joint project with PSA Peugeot Citroen, where he stayed one year at the Division of Automotive Research and Innovations in Paris. From 2002 to 2010 he was an applied researcher at the Fraunhofer-Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics in Goteborg, and in 2010 he was a guest researcher at Chalmers. He is currently working as a research engineer at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, mainly within industrial and research projects on statistical methods for load analysis, reliability and fatigue.

Michael Speckert received his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Kaiserslautern in 1990. From 1991 to 1993 he worked at TECMATH in the human modelling department on optimization algorithms. From 1993 to 2004 he worked at TECMATH and LMS in the departments for load data analysis and fatigue life estimation in the area of method as well as software development. Since 2004 he works at the department for Dynamics and Durability at Fraunhofer ITWM as an applied researcher. His main working areas are statistical and fatigue oriented load data analysis and multi body simulation techniques.