Including the normal to shear stresses ratio in fatigue life estimation for cyclic loadings

Abstract

The paper presents the estimation of the fatigue life under multiaxial cyclic loading of two construction materials. The main aim of this paper is to present a new method which allows evaluation of fatigue life during the design and construction phase of machine elements. In paper three well known multiaxial fatigue criteria based on the critical plane approach verified. This paper contains a proposition to define a new way of determining an orientation angle of the critical plane. The comparison between experimental and theoretical results varying the critical plane orientation appears to be satisfactory.