TY - JOUR A1 - Pourheidar, A. A1 - Patriarca, L. A1 - Madia, Mauro A1 - Werner, Tiago A1 - Beretta, S. T1 - Progress in the measurement of the cyclic R-curve and its application to fatigue assessment JF - Engineering fracture mechanics N2 - The cyclic R-curve describes the resistance of a material to fatigue crack propagation fromthe short to the long crack regimes and it is therefore an essential ingredient in any fracturemechanics-based fatigue assessment procedure. This work presents different testing proceduresemployed in the experimental determination of the cyclic R-curve, especially focusing onthe comparison with long fatigue crack propagation thresholds obtained by means of thecompression precracking load reduction (CPLR) procedure. The tests were performed on theEA4T steel considering different stress ratios. The results show a good reproducibility of thecyclic R-curves at every stress ratio and for any testing procedure. In addition, the cyclicR-curves were used in a fracture mechanics-based assessment to predict the fatigue limits ofspecimens containing micro-notches. KW - Cyclic R-curve KW - Fatigue limit KW - Fatigue propagation threshold KW - EA4T steel KW - Digital image correlation PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2021.108122 SN - 0013-7944 VL - 260 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - Elsevier CY - Kidlington AN - OPUS4-54208 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -