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In many metallic structures, flaws are inherent due to, e.g., notches, welding defects and voids. Macro cracks can originate from these flaws, and under time varying loading grow to a critical size causing catastrophic failure. The conditions governing the fatigue crack growth are the geometry of the structure and crack initiation site, the material characteristics, the environmental conditions and the loading. In general, these conditions are of random nature. The appropriate analysis and design methodologies should therefore be based on probabilistic methods.
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Madsen, H.O. (1997). Stochastic Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth and Inspection. In: Soares, C.G. (eds) Probabilistic Methods for Structural Design. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5614-1_4
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