Materials data for cyclic loading are becoming increasingly important as a tool for materials characterization and engineering design. They can serve as the basis for a comparative judgement of a material's mechanical behaviour. Furthermore, knowledge of the stress-strain behaviour during cyclic loading is required more and more frequently in finite element calculations of cyclically loaded structural parts. Finally, such data are a fundamental input for the fatigue life estimation procedure known as the Local Strain ...
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Materials data for cyclic loading are becoming increasingly important as a tool for materials characterization and engineering design. They can serve as the basis for a comparative judgement of a material's mechanical behaviour. Furthermore, knowledge of the stress-strain behaviour during cyclic loading is required more and more frequently in finite element calculations of cyclically loaded structural parts. Finally, such data are a fundamental input for the fatigue life estimation procedure known as the Local Strain Approach or Notch Strain Approach. Materials data for cyclic loading have been published in the scientific literature for many years, but have been collected in quite different ways. This is the first time that such data have been gathered together, evaluated according to uniform approach and methods, and compiled on standardised data sheets. The handbook comprises five volumes containing a collection of some 600 datasets with over 4000 experimental results in total.
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