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M. A. Meggiolaro et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 37 (2016) 138-145; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.37.19 144 predicted 327 blocks of consecutive square, circle and diamond paths is such that 1/327  1/751  1/996  1/1436 . Miner’s rule was also confirmed within the observed experimental results, since e.g. in this latter case it would predict a life of 1/(1/772  1/837  1/976) = 285 blocks, almost the same value as the measured 288 blocks. It is important to note that all the predictions listed in Tab. 1 were based only on uniaxial Coffin-Manson data, without any posterior curve fitting procedure. Tension-Torsion path: predicted observed error Cross 1314 1535  14% Diamond 1436 976  47% Triangle 1 1135 842  35% Triangle 2 1180 840  40% Circle 996 837  19% Square 751 772  3% Square + Cross 482 342  41% Square + Circle + Diamond 327 288  14% Table 1 : Predicted and observed lives, in number of blocks, for each applied path. C ONCLUSIONS n this work, a continuous multiaxial Incremental Fatigue Damage formulation that does not needs cycle counting or path-equivalent estimations is proposed, based on a direct analogy with incremental plasticity models. Both proposed stress and strain-based approaches can be formulated using traditional stress, strain, or even energy-based SN and  N damage models, such as Wöhler-Basquin, Coffin-Manson, Smith-Watson-Topper, or Fatemi-Socie, making it an attractive and practical tool for engineering use. In particular, the proposed IFD models do not require additional fitting parameters, or complex calibration routines, as opposed to equally continuous models that are based on traditional Continuum Damage Mechanics approaches. The results show that the proposed method is able to predict quite well multiaxial fatigue lives under complex tension-torsion histories, even though it does not require any cycle detection, multiaxial rainflow counting, or path-equivalent range computations. R EFERENCES [1] Wang, C.H., Brown, M.W. Life prediction techniques for variable amplitude multiaxial fatigue - part 1: theories, J. Eng. Mater. Technology 118 (1996) 367-370. [2] Meggiolaro, M.A., Castro, J.T.P. An improved multiaxial rainflow algorithm for non-proportional stress or strain histories - part I: enclosing surface methods, Int. J. Fatigue 42 (2012), 217-226. doi:10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2011.10.014. [3] Meggiolaro, M.A., Castro, J.T.P. An improved multiaxial rainflow algorithm for non-proportional stress or strain histories - part II: the modified Wang-Brown method, Int. J. Fatigue 42 (2012) 194-206. doi:10.1016/j.ijfatigue. 2011.10.012. [4] Meggiolaro, M.A.; Castro, J.T.P.; Wu, H. Invariant-based and critical-plane rainflow approaches for fatigue life prediction under multiaxial variable amplitude loading, Procedia Engineering 101 (2015) 69-76. doi: 10.1016/ j.proeng.2015.02.010. [5] Kachanov, L.M. Introduction to Continuum Damage Mechanics, Springer (1986). [6] Wetzel, R.M. A Method of Fatigue Damage Analysis, Ph.D. Thesis, U. Waterloo, CA, (1971). I