Inrraterials stience, fatigueisthe weaning of eraterial caused by repeatedly applied loads Itisthe progresdve and locdisedistructura damage that ocaurswhen emmaterial is subjectedto adic loading. The noninal mexirrum stress values that cause such darmage ray be much less than the srengh of the maeia typicdly quoted as theultimate tendle stress lirrit, or the yedaresslimt Fatigue occurs when a material iss bjected to repested loadingand unloading. If the leads are above a certain threshold, rricroscopic cracks will begin to form at the stress corvertrators such as the surface, persistert dip bands (PSBR), and gain irterfaces, Evertually a gadk val reach a critical de, the crack will propagete suddenly, and the structure will fra¢ure. The shepe of the structure will sigrificartly affect the fatigue life: scare cles or sharp cornerswill lead to eleveted local ctresses where fatigue crade can initiate, Round holes and arocth trandtionsor fillets will trerefore increase the fetigue strength of the structure, Fatiguelife ASIM defiresfatique life, as the nurrber of stress cydes of a soeditied character that 4 spedmen astdns beforefailureof a spedfied nature occurs, For some méerials, Notably steel aruititanium, there is a theoretical vaUe for stress arrplitude below which the rreterial will not fail for any rurrber of ayes called a fatique lint, endLrance lirrit, or fatigue strength. Engineers heve used any of three methods to deterrrine the fatigue life of e materia: the dresslife method, the srairlife method, and the linear-elactic fracture mechanics method, One method to predict fatigue life of raterids is the Uniform Material Law (UML), UML wes developed far fatigue life prediction of alurriniumard titarium alloys by the endof 20th certury andestendedto hidrstrendh steels and cat iron Creraceristicsof fatigue Fracture of en alurrinium crank arm, Darkarea of stidtions: dow creck gowth Bigt graruiar area: sudden fracture