First,Wirsching＇smodel,whichiswidelyemployedinfatiguereliabilityanlysisofmarineandoffshorestructures,isanalysedsystematically.Itisfoundthattheveryimportantrandomvariable△inWirsching＇smodelcannotbedirectlydeterminedfromfatigueexperimentbecauseoftheirreversibilityoffatiguetest,andinfact,whatWirschingstudiedfromtestingresultsisnot△butαofthestatisticalMiner＇srule.Second,byuseofthestatisticalMiner＇srule,amodifiedWirsching＇smodelisproposed.Thirdlyandmoreimportantly,basedonthetwo-dimensionalprobabilisticMiner＇srule,anewmodelisestablishedforfatiguereliabilityanalysisofstructuralcomponentssubjectedtospecifiedcyclicloadingofvariableamplitudeorstochastictimehistory.Intheend,anexampleispresented,fromwhichitwillbeseenthatthisnewmodelisveryconvenienttouseandfeasibletoengineeringpractice.
