Biaxial Fatigue of Metals

Jaap Schijve has been working for 20 years in the Structures and Materials Laboratory of the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in the Structures and materials Laboratory of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology. His experience covers a large variety of fatigue projects varying from fundamental investigations to practical problems such as scale structures and accidents investigations. He is well-known for a large number of publications. His book Fatigue of Structures and Materials is a bestselling textbook and won a Texty Award.

1. Biaxial fatigue of metals. A survey of the present understanding.- 1.1. Introduction.- 2. Physical aspects of the fatigue phenomenon under uniaxial and biaxial loading.- 2.1. The fatigue phenomenon under uniaxial loading.- 2.2. Different modes of fatigue crack growth.- 2.3. The fatigue phenomenon under biaxial load cycles.- 3. Biaxial fatigue research programs.- 3.1. Two methods to describe biaxial load conditions.- 3.2. Specimens for research on biaxial fatigue.- 4. Predictions of fatigue properties for biaxial fatigue loads.- 4.1. Predictions and the similarity concept.- 4.2. Biaxial fatigue of full-scale structures.- 5. Summarizing conclusions.- References.