caa a22 4500 47708043X CHVBK 20180405111448.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00732036 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00732036 Davidson David Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas aut Degradation of components and structures by fatigue [Elektronische Daten] [David Davidson] This note examines briefly fatigue as a degradation mechanism and how engineers compensate for the fatigue phenomenon. Design is generally based on the stress-lifetime concept, but this concept is not very useful for lifetime assessment of operating components; thus, fatigue crack initiation and the growth of fatigue cracks become important. The numerous factors related to fatigue crack initiation and growth are briefly mentioned, and the importance of including the growth of small fatigue cracks is emphasized through the use of an illustration. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 Fatigue nationallicence fatigue crack initiation nationallicence small cracks nationallicence large cracks nationallicence crack growth rates nationallicence Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 15/3-4(1996-12-01), 101-106 0195-9298 15:3-4<101 1996 15 10921 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00732036 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00732036 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Davidson David Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 15/3-4(1996-12-01), 101-106 0195-9298 15:3-4<101 1996 15 10921 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer