Abstract
AbstractThe crack opening/closure load concept is widely used to justify the fatigue crack growth behaviour with different load ratios and the load interaction effects. Many experimental techniques have been proposed to measure crack opening/closure load, and amongst them, compliance offset methods are widely used for their simplicity and consistency. In this paper, a modification of the ASTM method is proposed. The new method has a more general applicability as it can be applied to broadband variable amplitude loads. The method is described in detail and is applied on a 2024‐T351 aluminium alloy. The good correlation of the opening load estimated with the new method and the strip‐yield model implemented in Nasgro indicates that the new method could be used as an alternative for the cases where complex variable amplitude loads occur.
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