Influence of crack growth behavior in silica glass on fatigue test results

A novel method for incorporating static fatigue results into dynamic fatigue curves allows one to significantly extend the range of experimental fatigue results for further analysis. One obtains a power-law description of static fatigue data over a narrow range of time-to-failure and subsequently translates the data into this region into dynamic fatigue data. This recalculation method applies to data that does not follow the traditional power law model.