Issue 53

A. Chatzigeorgiou et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 53 (2020) 306-324; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.53.24 321 In Fig.21 the cracked specimen and the results of the experiment and the proposed code in FEMAP are shown. Figure 20: Specimen for the verification of the lifetime estimation with dimensions in (mm)[31]. Figure 21: Specimen from the experiment (a), and the trajectory created by the proposed code into FEMAP (b). The comparison of the trajectories is presented in Fig.21. The one has been created by the experiment (Fig. 21,a), and the other has been created by the proposed code in FEMAP (Fig. 21,b) using about 4190 elements with global mesh size 0.8mm. In addition, the comparison of the cycle loads from the experiment and the proposed code in FEMAP is shown in Fig. 22. Figure 22: Comparison of the cycle loads from experiment and FEMAP.