Multiaxial Notch Fracture and Fatigue

This book presents unified fatigue life prediction equations for a low/medium/high cycle fatigue of metallic materials, relevant to plain materials and notched components.

Yan Xiangqiao is currently Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests include the fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures, and he has published more than 100 papers in international journals.

1. Introduction, 2. Applicability of the Wöhler Curve Method for a Low/Medium/High Cycle Fatigue of Metallic Materials, 3. Notch S-N Equation for a Low/Medium/High Cycle Fatigue of Metallic Materials, 4. A Local Approach for Fracture Analysis of V-Notch Specimens Under Mode I Loading, 5. A Local Stress Field Failure Model for Sharp Notches, 6. An Empirical Fracture Equation of Mixed Mode Cracks, 7. An Empirical Failure Equation to Assess Mixed-Mode Fracture of Notched Components, 8. A New Type of S-N Equation and Its Application to Multiaxial Fatigue Life Prediction