Journal of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics

39, 4, pp. 843-859, Warsaw 2001

Fatigue crack growth peculiarities and modifications of the Wheeler retardation model (Part 2)

Sylwester Kłysz
Modifications of the Wheeler retardation model have been presented in the paper. The modifications improve description of data resulting from investigations on fatigue crack growth phenomena, in particular, for higher values of overloads.
Keywords: crack growth; overloads; retardation; Wheeler model