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Fatigue crack growth cyclic load

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Settler

Structural
May 22, 2010
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Hello all,

what I want to do is to simulate the fatigue crack growth in a standard dog bone shaped specimen with an initial crack in it. I have experimental results that I would like to validate numerically. Is there any way to do it in abaqus?

I have seen the monotonic crack growth tutorial, but is there any way to do it for a constant amplitude cyclic load to estimate numerically the fatigue life?

Thank you in advance!
 
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