An assessment of small crack effect in a
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S. Chattopadhyay
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Article
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1992
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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In order to evaluate fatigue lives without significant penalty, the analyses must assume a small initial crack. It has been reported in many studies, as noted in [1], that small cracks grow faster than large cracks at the same stress intensity factor range and that small cracks can grow at AK levels