... components crack detection fatigue cracks regression analysis damage identification prognosis load identification restoring forces empirical damage evolution models In order to predict the life of structural components, damage evolution laws are required. Phenomenological laws...

... ( Collins, J. A., 1993, Failure of Materials and Mechanical Design: Analysis, Prediction, Prevention, 2nd ed., Wiley, New York ) in a number of aspects such as statistical approach to material defects, stress analysis, etc. The model is based on fracture mechanics and fatigue crack propagation. The model...

...X. Allan Zhong A three-dimensional fracture mechanics model is formulated to study fatigue crack growth and durability in tires. The application of this model in a radial medium truck tire reveals fracture characteristics of belt edge cracks and helps to explain mechanical and material changes...

... circumferential stress criterion (Erdogan and Sih) becomes a very effective numerical approach for simulating the fatigue crack propagation process in plane elastic bodies under mixed-mode conditions. In the numerical simulation, for each increment of crack extension, remeshing of existing boundaries...