The design of mechanical structures with improved and predictable durability cannot be achieved without a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of fatigue damage and more specifically the relationships between the microstructure of materials and their fatigue properties. Written by leading experts in the field, this book (which is complementary to Fatigue of Materials and Structures: Application to Damage and Design, also edited by Claude Bathias and Andr Pineau), provides an authoritative, comprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanics and micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, polymers and composites. Each chapter is devoted to one of the major classes of materials or to different types of fatigue damage, thereby providing overall coverage of the field. The book deals with crack initiation, crack growth, low-cycle fatigue, gigacycle fatigue, shorts cracks, fatigue micromechanisms and the local approach to fatigue damage, corrosion fatigue, environmental effects and variable amplitude loadings, and will be an important and much used reference for students, practicing engineers and researchers studying fracture and fatigue in numerous areas of mechanical, structural, civil, design, nuclear, and aerospace engineering as well as materials science.

The design of mechanical structures with improved and predictabledurability cannot be achieved without a thorough understanding ofthe mechanisms of fatigue damage and more specifically therelationships between the microstructure of materials and theirfatigue properties. Written by leading experts in the field, thisbook (which is complementary to Fatigue of Materials andStructures: Application to Damage and Design, also edited by ClaudeBathias and André Pineau), provides an authoritativecomprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanics andmicromechanisms of fatigue in metals, polymers and composites. Eachchapter is devoted to one of the major classes of materials or todifferent types of fatigue damage, thereby providing overallcoverage of the field.The book deals with crack initiation, crack growth, low-cyclefatigue, gigacycle fatigue, shorts cracks, fatigue micromechanismsand the local approach to fatigue damage, corrosion fatigueenvironmental effects and variable amplitude loadings, and will bean important and much used reference for students, practicingengineers and researchers studying fracture and fatigue in numerousareas of mechanical, structural, civil, design, nuclear, andaerospace engineering as well as materials science.

Foreword xiStephen D. ANTOLOVICHChapter 1. High Temperature Fatigue 1Stephen D. ANTOLOVICH and Andre PINEAU1.1. Introduction and overview 11.2. 9 to 12% Cr steels 71.3. Austenitic stainless steels 221.4. Fatigue of superalloys 401.5. Lifespan prediction in high-temperature fatigue 1041.6. Conclusions 1141.7. Acknowledgments 1181.8. Bibliography 118Chapter 2. Analysis of Elasto-plastic Strains and StressesNear Notches Subjected to Monotonic and Cyclic Multiaxial LoadingPaths 131Gregory GLINKA2.1. Introduction 1312.2. Multiaxial fatigue parameters 1342.3. Elasto-plastic notch-tip stress-strain calculation methods1462.4. Comparison of notch stress-strain calculations withnumerical data 1642.5. Conclusion 1732.6. Bibliography 1732.7. Symbols 176Chapter 3. Fatigue of Composite Materials 179Claude BATHIAS3.1. Introduction 1793.2. Drastic differences between the fatigue of composites andmetals 1833.3. Notch effect on fatigue strength 1913.4. Effect of a stress on composite fatigue 1933.5. Fatigue after impact 1983.6. Fatigue damage criteria 1993.7. Conclusion 2023.8. Bibliography 203Chapter 4. Fatigue of Polymers and Elastomers 205Claude BATHIAS4.1. Introduction 2054.2. Life of polymers 2064.3. Crack propagation within polymers 2074.4. Damaging mechanisms of polymers 2084.5. Specific case of the fatigue of elastomers 2104.6. The life of natural rubbers 2114.7. Crack propagation in natural rubber 2134.8. Propagation mechanisms of cracks in natural rubber 2174.9. Multiaxial fatigue of rubbers 2194.10. Cavitation of rubbers 2214.11. Conclusion 2224.12. Bibliography 222Chapter 5. Probabilistic Design of Structures Submitted toFatigue 223Bruno SUDRET5.1. Introduction 2235.2. Treatment of hazard in mechanical models 2245.3. Plotting probabilistic S-N curves 2295.4. Probabilistic design with respect to crack initiation2375.5. Probabilistic propagation models 2455.6. Conclusion 2525.7. Appendix A: probability theory reminder 2535.8. Bibliography 259Chapter 6. Prediction of Fatigue Crack Growth withinStructures 265Jean LEMAITRE6.1. Prediction problems 2656.2. Crack growth laws 2686.3. Calculation of cracking variables 2826.4. Resolution method of the cracking equations 2896.5. New directions 2966.6. Bibliography 296List of Authors 299Index 301