Biaxial high cycle fatigue: experimental investigation and two-scale damage model

This research thesis first describes the multi-axial fatigue phenomenon in the cases of mechanical and complex loadings, discusses multi-axial fatigue criteria, and presents the approach of fatigue by incremental damage mechanics. Then, it reports an experimental investigation of fatigue crack initiation under biaxial polycyclic fatigue in 304L austenitic stainless steel and in titanium alloy. The author presents a probabilistic two-scale damage model, and then reports the assessment of multi-axial fatigue life by means of this model