An analytical approach to determine conventional S−N curves from accelerated-fatigue data

Abstract

This paper describes an analytical method of obtaining conventional S−N curves from the accelerated-fatigue tests, namely the generalized Prot accelerated-fatigue-testing technique in which the stress amplitude increases linearly with respect to cycle. Miner's cumulative-damage theory was applied and an expression for the sum of a series of natural numbers raised to a certain nonintegral power was developed to achieve this. The agreement between analytical prediction and experimental verification is quite reasonable.