eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2328-4110 2017-12-15 5 6 274 279 10.12691/ajme-5-6-8 AJME2017568 article Michal Kicko michal.kicko@tuke.sk 1 Peter Frankovsky 1 Róbert HUŇADY 1 Adam Kaľavský 1 Ján Kostka 1 Department of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University, Košice, Slovakia The article is divided into three parts. Except the foundations of theoretical knowledges about the fatigue life, the design of the breakdown truck body construction for a particular vehicle is also described in initials. In the second part the stress analysis of this construction is analyzed by finite element method (FEM). Based on this, at the end of the thesis, the fatigue life time is evaluated and compared with the experimental. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajme/5/6/8/ajme-5-6-8.pdf fatigue service lifetime breakdown truck body construction Rule EEC 55 Abaqus CAE finite element method (FEM)