Fatigue Life Prediction Based on Crack Closure and Equivalent Initial Flaw Size

Failure analysis and fatigue life prediction are necessary and critical for engineering structural materials. In this paper, a general methodology is proposed to predict fatigue life of smooth and circular-hole specimens, in which the crack closure model and equivalent initial flaw size (EIFS) conce...

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Main Authors: Qiang Wang, Wei Zhang, Shan Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-10-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/8/10/5367