This review chapter is an outline of the complex field of dynamic fracture mechanics and the material behavior during fast, crash-like loading events and the resulting short-time processes of initiation, propagation, and arrest of cracks.
Indeed, the traditional notion of a fatigue limit can be recast in terms of limits associated with nucleation and arrest of fatigue cracks at the microstructural scale.
An elastic predictive approach is described based on arrest of short cracks propagating from a notch, which is an idealisation of the damage.
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Then relative stiffness is proposed to reflect the difference of crack arrest effects of the stiffeners, and mathematical models are developed for the fracture parameters of stiffened plates.
Scanning electron microscopy analysis revealed a mechanism of crack arrest by the long fibers that are well embedded in the matrix.
Concepts of crack arrest in the small crack regime are then used to predict the variation of fatigue strength with notch size using the Kitagawa–Takahashi diagram.
