Mean stress relaxation during cyclic str
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Attilio Arcari; Raffaella De Vita; Norman E. Dowling
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Cycle-dependent relaxation may alter mean stress values and thus affect fatigue crack initiation life. This phenomenon is an issue both for accuracy of estimated fatigue lives and for the success of methods of intentionally introducing beneficial mean stresses. Although rigorous plasticity theories