New technologies for sharing research data and costs

The paper describes a set of tools intended for fatigue analyses either in the engineering or research practice. These tools are available for free. PragTic is a fatigue solver that can work even with FE-data and allows fast implementations of new methods and their quick comparison with existing ones. FatLim and FinLiv are Internet databases of fatigue experimental data including results of fatigue predictions. The paper explains the reasons for their development and their distribution policy, reports their current status and brings some ideas where to continue.