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P. Raposo et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 42 (2017) 105-118; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.42.12 105 Focused on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals Probabilistic fatigue S-N curves derivation for notched components P. Raposo, J.A.F.O. Correia, A.M.P. De Jesus, R.A.B. Calçada INEGI and CONSTRUCT, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal praposo@inegi.up.pt, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-8209 jacorreia@inegi.up.pt , http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4148-9426 ajesus@fe.up.pt, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1059-715X ruiabc@fe.up.pt, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2375-7685 G. Lesiuk Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanics, Material Science and Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Smoluchowskiego 25, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland Grzegorz.Lesiuk@pwr.edu.pl, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3553-6107 M. Hebdon Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Civil Engineering, Blacksburg, United States mhebdon@vt.edu A. Fernández-Canteli Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering, Univ. of Oviedo, 33203 Gijón, Spain afc@uniovi.es , http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-9223 A BSTRACT . Europe has a number of ancient riveted metallic bridges, constructed during the second half of the 19 th century up to the middle of the 20 th century, which are still in operation. In this paper, a unified approach is presented to generate probabilistic S-N curves to be applied to structural components, accounting for uncertainties in material properties. The approach is particularly demonstrated for a plate with a circular hole, made of puddle iron from the Portuguese Eiffel Bridge. This paper presents an extension of the local strain-based fatigue crack propagation model proposed by Noroozi et al. The latter model is applied to derive the probabilistic fatigue crack propagation field ( p-S-N p field). The probabilistic fatigue crack initiation field ( p-S-N i field) is determined using a notch elastoplastic approach, to calculate the fatigue failure of the first elementary material block ahead of the notch root. K EYWORDS . Fatigue; Probabilistic Approach; Puddle Iron; Notched Plate; Local Approaches. Citation: Raposo, P., Correia, J.A.F.O., De Jesus, A.M.P., Calçada, R.A.B., Lesiuk, G., Hebdon, M., Fernández-Canteli, A., Probabilistic fatigue S-N curves derivation for notched components, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 42 (2017) 105-118. Received: 30.04.2017 Accepted: 31.05.2017 Published: 01.10.2017 Copyright: © 2017 This is an open access article under the terms of the CC-BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.