Current understanding of ultra-high cycle fatigue

Qingyuan Wang, Muhammad Kashif Khan, Claude Bathias
2012 Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters  
The fatigue life of numerous aerospace, locomotive, automotive and biomedical structures may go beyond 10 8 cycles. Determination of long life fatigue behavior becomes extremely important for better understanding and design of the components and structures. Initially, before the invention of ultrasonic fatigue testing, most of the engineering materials were supposed to exhibit fatigue life up to 10 7 cycles or less. This paper reviews current understanding of some fundamental aspects on the
more » ... lopment of accelerated fatigue testing method and its application in ultra-high cycle fatigue, crack initiation and growth mechanisms of internal fracture, S-N diagram, fatigue limit and life prediction, etc.
doi:10.1063/2.1203102 fatcat:lza6qdcpd5e3li4yitvri2rc5u