Fatigue Calculator

The eFatigue website includes Fatigue Calculators and Fatigue Analyzers. There are no charges or accounts required to use any Fatigue Calculator. An eFatigue subscription will give you enhanced features for Fatigue Calculators, including the ability to save data and results on our server, as well as access to the more computationally intensive Fatigue Analyzers.

Most fatigue technologies and fatigue analysis software have only been used by experts with costs to match. No longer. The Fatigue Calculator portion of the eFatigue website contains technologies and tools needed for accurate fatigue assessments with an interface that is easy for the non-expert to navigate. With a Fatigue Calculator you can quickly:

• do a simple fatigue analysis,
• compare results from different methods,
• find a stress concentration factor, or
• find material properties

Each Fatigue Calculator includes a "Learn by Example" button that will walk you through its input parameters and methods. Databases for material properties, stress concentration factors, and stress intensity factors are included. With a Fatigue Calculator, any engineer can quickly and easily conduct a fatigue or durability analysis.

Fatigue analysis methods are based on stress-life, strain-life or crack growth:

• Stress-Life
  This method is often called the SN approach and is appropriate for long life situations where the strength of the material and the nominal stress control the fatigue life. Stresses remain elastic even around stress concentrations.
• Strain-Life
  This method sometimes referred to as the εN approach and is used for finite fatigue lives in ductile materials where plasticity around stress concentrations is important.
• Crack Growth
  Fracture mechanics, LEFM, is used to determine how long it will take a crack to grow to a critical size.

Fatigue Calculators are available in the Constant Amplitude, Multiaxial and Probabilistic sections of eFatigue.