The design of mechanical structures with predictable and improved 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 researchers in the field, this book, along with the complementary books Fatigue of Materials and Structures: Fundamentals and Application to Damage and Design (both 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. This book deals with multiaxial fatigue, thermomechanical fatigue, fretting-fatigue, influence of defects on fatigue life, cumulative damage and damage tolerance, and will be an important and much used reference for students, practicing engineers and researchers studying fracture and fatigue in numerous areas of materials science and engineering, mechanical, nuclear and aerospace engineering.

The design of mechanical structures with predictable and improveddurability 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 researchers in the field, this book, along withthe complementary books Fatigue of Materials and Structures:Fundamentals and Application to Damage and Design (both also editedby Claude Bathias and André Pineau), provides anauthoritative, comprehensive and unified treatment of the mechanicsand micromechanisms of fatigue in metals, polymers and composites.Each chapter is devoted to one of the major classes of materials orto different types of fatigue damage, thereby providing overallcoverage of the field.This book deals with multiaxial fatigue, thermomechanicalfatigue, fretting-fatigue, influence of defects on fatigue lifecumulative damage and damage tolerance, and will be an importantand much used reference for students, practicing engineers andresearchers studying fracture and fatigue in numerous areas ofmaterials science and engineering, mechanical, nuclear andaerospace engineering.

Foreword xiStephen D. ANTOLOVICHChapter 1. Multiaxial Fatigue 1Marc BLETRY and Georges CAILLETAUD1.1 Introduction 11.2. Experimental aspects 121.3. Criteria specific to the unlimited endurance domain 151.4. Low cycle fatigue criteria 301.5. Calculating methods of the lifetime under multiaxialconditions 351.6. Conclusion 401.7. Bibliography 41Chapter 2. Cumulative Damage 47Jean-Louis CHABOCHE2.1. Introduction 472.2. Nonlinear fatigue cumulative damage 492.3. A nonlinear cumulative fatigue damage model 632.4. Damage law of incremental type 772.5. Cumulative damage under fatigue-creep conditions 952.6. Conclusion 1032.7. Bibliography 104Chapter 3. Damage Tolerance Design 111Raphael CAZES3.1. Background 1123.2. Evolution of the design concept of "fatigue"phenomenon 1123.3. Impact of damage tolerance on design 1153.4. Calculation of a "stress intensity factor"1193.5. Performing some "damage tolerance" calculations1273.6. Application to the residual strength of thin sheets 1313.7. Propagation of cracks subjected to random loading in theaeronautic industry 1353.8. Conclusion 1443.9. Damage tolerance within the gigacyclic domain 1473.10. Bibliography 149Chapter 4. Defect Influence on the Fatigue Behavior ofMetallic Materials 151Gilles BAUDRY4.1. Introduction 1514.2. Some facts 1524.3. Approaches 1664.4. A few examples 1714.5. Prospects 1804.6. Conclusion 1854.7. Bibliography 186Chapter 5. Fretting Fatigue: Modeling and Applications195Marie-Christine BAIETTO-DUBORG and Trevor LINDLEY5.1 Introduction 1955.2. Experimental methods 1985.3. Fretting fatigue analysis 2035.4. Applications under fretting conditions 2145.5. Palliatives to combat fretting fatigue 2245.6. Conclusions 2255.7 Bibliography 226Chapter 6. Contact Fatigue 231Ky DANG VAN6.1. Introduction 2316.2. Classification of the main types of contact damage 2326.3. A few results on contact mechanics 2396.4. Elastic limit 2486.5. Elastoplastic contact 2496.6. Application to modeling of a few contact fatigue issues2546.7. Conclusion 2686.8. Bibliography 269Chapter 7?Ï?ÏThermal Fatigue 271Eric CHARKALUK and Luc REMY7.1. Introduction 2717.2. Characterization tests 2767.3. Constitutive and damage models at variable temperatures2947.4. Applications 3147.5. Conclusion 3257.6. Bibliography 326List of Authors 339Index 341