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Description of Fatigue Loading

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Towards a Unified Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Marine Structures

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Fatigue is defined as a process of cycle by cycle accumulation of damage in a material undergoing fluctuating stresses and strains (Almar-Naess, 1985). A significant feature of fatigue is that the load is not large enough to cause immediate failure. Instead, failure occurs after a certain number of load fluctuations have been experienced, i.e. after the accumulated damage has reached a critical level, see Fig. 6.1 for an illustration.

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Cui, W., Huang, X., Wang, F. (2014). Description of Fatigue Loading. In: Towards a Unified Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Marine Structures. Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41831-0_6

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