Abstract
ABSTRACTThe concept of damage tolerance is now largely employed to evaluate the fatigue life of structures. However, part of this fatigue relies on the initiation and growth of small cracks. The fatigue behaviour of a naval structural steel (S355NL) was investigated. In order to characterize the behaviour of short and long cracks, tests were performed under constant amplitude loading for several load ratios between –1.0 and 0.5. A major part of fatigue life is constituted by short crack initiation and propagation.
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