Low cycle Fatigue
Low cycle Fatigue
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Hello all,
I am looking at some low cycle fatigue tests and wondering if from a material study perspective. Is low cycle fatigue assessments normally conducted for overall material components or can it just be applied to micro surface cracks also?
Thanks
I am looking at some low cycle fatigue tests and wondering if from a material study perspective. Is low cycle fatigue assessments normally conducted for overall material components or can it just be applied to micro surface cracks also?
Thanks





RE: Low cycle Fatigue
High cycle fatigue deals primiarly with fatigue crack initiation, and fatigue crack propagation is a much smaller percentage of the component's fatigue life. Micro-crack initiation and subsequent crack propagation would be more applicable to high cycle fatigue studies.