A one-parameter nonlinear fatigue damage accumulation model

A nonlinear model for fatigue damage accumulation under variable amplitude loading is presented. The known assumption that the isodamage curves are converging at the knee point of the S-N curve of the material, has been adopted. The proposed model does only require one parameter, in addition to the S-N curve of the material, in order to calculate the remaining fatigue life. A single value for the parameter has been found to give satisfying agreement with experimental data for four arbitrary selected steels, indicating a general trend.