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A Review of Damage, Void Evolution, and Fatigue Life Prediction Models

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Hsiao Wei Lee, Cemal Basaran

Summary

This engineering review summarizes models for predicting how damage, voids, and fatigue cause materials such as metals and composites to fail over time. This materials science paper is not related to microplastic environmental contamination.

This paper aims to provide an overall review of degradation, damage evolution and fatigue models in the literature of various engineering materials, mostly metals, and composites.

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