A novel fatigue life prediction methodology based on energy dissipation in viscoelastic materials

This paper introduces a new fatigue life prediction methodology for viscoelastic materials in the tension–tension fatigue loading region. The model was established based on the total amount of energy dissipated during fatigue loading, and offers two main advantages with respect to existing models in the literature, i.e. it considers the creep effect on fatigue behavior and requires less input data. The model was applied to three different...