CLASSIFICATION OF THE FATIGUE DOMAIN AND PREDICTION OF DAMAGE WITH CRACK EXTENSION PARAMETERS

The whole fatigue domain has been divided into six Werent zones, each governed by a separate fatigue regime. Some of these regimes coincide with a known classification of fatigue, and others are new regimes, where new prediction methods have been introduced. The proposed predictions are to be considered as practical curve fitting relations for special cases, but those cases can also be fairly general and useful for design purposes. The proposed fatigue diagram can be used as a basis for a quantified explanation of several known fatigue phenomena.