Learn More about Material Fatigue
Metal fatigue is a complex subject. The failure of a structure due to fatigue seems often random and hard to predict. The fatigue process is stochastic by nature and can therefore only be described by statistical models. Although the physical processes driving fatigue are quite complicated and still not fully understood by science, metal fatigue can be rather accurately calculated and predicted in practice, if a number of design rules and assumptions are taken into account.
We like to share our knowledge with you, so you can obtain a better insight in the nature of fatigue and the process of fatigue analysis and learn how to avoid costs by developing more durable products.
What is Material Fatigue?
What is material fatigue exactly? Which factors influence the fatigue strength of a component?
What is Material fatigue?Glossary of Terms Material Fatigue
A comprehensive list of common terms, definitions and explanations of material fatigue.
Material fatigue definitionsSurface Roughness Factor KR
How is the surface roughness factor KR calculated and how is the S-N curve adjusted accordingly?
The Surface roughness factor KR explainedRamberg-Osgood Equation
What is the Ramberg-Osgood equation? How does the strain relate to the stress beyond the material yield point?
The Ramberg-Osgood equation explainedCertainty of Survival
Fatigue test data contains some scatter. How to deal with it in the S-N curve?
Read about Certainty of Survival in FatigueMaterial Database Fatigue Properties
An overview of the materials for which we have detailed fatigue properties at our disposal.
Our material database for fatigueSupport FEA file types
A list of the supported FEA file types we can directly read and import into our fatigue analysis software.
FEA file types we support