Crack tip
Monotonic and reversed
plastic zone development
at tip of advancing fatigue
crack
Plastic zone size
• Paris showed that the size of this • Hahn et al. measured the reversed
smaller plastic zone was plastic zone dimension as
2
1
hk
∆K
2
ry =
8π
σys
ryc = 0.033
• Plastic zone size is estimated by σ ys
substituting hk for K and 2σys for
σys in normal plastic zone size
formula.
Cyclic strain softening
Cyclic strain hardening