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Micrographsshowinghowsurface

fatiguecracksgrowasmaterialis
furthercycled.FromEwing&
Humfrey(1903)
reliableapplicationofMiner'sruletorandomloadings.
[11]
1970:W.Elberelucidatesthemechanismsandimportance
ofcrackclosureinslowingthegrowthofafatiguecrack
duetothewedgingeffectofplasticdeformationleftbehind
thetipofthecrack.
Historically,mostattentionhasfocusedonsituationsthatrequire
morethan10
4
cyclestofailurewherestressislowand
deformationisprimarilyelastic.
SNcurve
Inhighcyclefatiguesituations,materialsperformanceis
commonlycharacterizedbyanSNcurve,alsoknownasaWhler
curve.Thisisagraphofthemagnitudeofacyclicstress(S)
againstthelogarithmicscaleofcyclestofailure(N).
SNcurvesarederivedfromtestsonsamplesofthematerialtobecharacterized(oftencalledcoupons)
wherearegularsinusoidalstressisappliedbyatestingmachinewhichalsocountsthenumberof
cyclestofailure.Thisprocessissometimesknownascoupontesting.Eachcoupontestgeneratesa
pointontheplotthoughinsomecasesthereisarunoutwherethetimetofailureexceedsthat
availableforthetest(seecensoring).Analysisoffatiguedatarequirestechniquesfromstatistics,
especiallysurvivalanalysisandlinearregression.
TheprogressionoftheSNcurvecanbeinfluencedbymanyfactorssuchascorrosion,temperature,
residualstresses,andthepresenceofnotches.TheGoodmanLineisamethodtoestimatethe
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