Random fatigue crack growth with retardation

Abstract On basis of a study of the literature concerning empirical findings in fatigue crack growth in metal specimens under constant amplitude loading with occasional overloads, the paper summarizes the reported qualitative effects of the overloads. The great scatter of the observations and the difficulty of setting up a clear physical mechanism, which in deterministic terms explains the crack growth retarding effects of the overloads, motivates attempts to formulate stochastic process models of phenomenological type. The paper shows that birth processes have features that make them applicable in modelling fatigue crack growth processes. In fact, this process type allows a time transformation that reduces the case of variable amplitude loading to the case of constant amplitude loading. The mean growth curve defined as the mean time of growth to a given crack length as function of this crack length may in the constant load amplitude case be calibrated to the Paris-Erdogan law. For the case of occasional overloads it may be further calibrated to the empirical results reported in the form of the Wheeler model of crack retardation based on the concept of a strengthening plastic zone at the crack tip caused by the overload.

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