Mechanics of fatigue crack growth under large-scale plasticity: A direct physical approach for single-valued correlation of fatigue crack growth data

The major challenge in the mechanics of elastic-plastic fatigue crack growth is to find a physically based driving force parameter to correlate the crack growth rates under different loading conditions. Specifically, a parameter that can provide single-valued correlation of crack growth rates, in stress-controlled and strain-controlled fatigue, is needed. Approaches of the past used either cyclic strain (strain intensity factor) or...