Guo, Y., Li, L., Gui, J. and Hu, S. (2025) Neural Network Approaches for Real-Time Fatigue Life Estimation by Surrogating the Rainflow Counting Method. International Journal of Fatigue, 197, Article ID: 108941.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2025.108941

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• TITLE: Fatigue-Consistent Load Extrapolation Based on Tail-Weighted Histogram-Regularized LSTM

  AUTHORS: Yu Bai, Fei Meng

  KEYWORDS: LSTM Sequence Modeling, Load Extrapolation, Rainflow Counting

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol.14 No.1, January 28, 2026

  ABSTRACT: This study proposes a Tail-Weighted Histogram-Regularized LSTM (TWHR-LSTM) to extend 10s load signals into longer sequences while preserving fatigue characteristics. The method removes trends, normalizes the signal, and trains a sequence-to-sequence LSTM model using overlapping windows of 2000 data points. The model’s loss function includes reconstruction error, histogram distance, variance regularization, and a penalty for large step changes to focus on extreme rainflow cycles. Compared to traditional parameter and KDE rainflow extrapolation methods, TWHR-LSTM better reproduces the tail of the load range spectrum, with a pseudo-damage ratio error of only 1.2%. It shows superior performance in maintaining fatigue characteristics and signal quality.