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Modelling of Fatigue Crack Growth

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Advances in Fatigue Science and Technology

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Fatigue crack growth is presently being treated almost exclusively within the theoretical framework of fracture mechanics. This trend is following the pioneering work of Paris and his co-workers, which date back some 25 years (1). However, at that time several other parameters than K, the stress intensity factor, were being used to correlate fatigue crack growth rates and it is rather interesting to recall that the original paper (1) was rejected by three leading journals, whose reviewers felt that “it is not possible that an elastic parameter such as K can account for the self-evident plasticity effects in correlating fatigue crack growth rates” (2).

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Blom, A.F. (1989). Modelling of Fatigue Crack Growth. In: Branco, C.M., Rosa, L.G. (eds) Advances in Fatigue Science and Technology. NATO ASI Series, vol 159. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2277-8_3

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