Two stochastic models of fatigue crack growth under constant amplitude cyclic loadingare proposed and studied by using the stochastic averaging method and total probability theorem to ac-count for high frequency component and low frequency component, respectively, of the irregular na-ture of fatigue crack growth observed in Virkler’s experiment. Particular attention is paid to the predic-tion performance of the models under a change in the initial crack length. It is shown that the modelsproposed in the present paper yields better agreement with experimental data than other models avail-able in literature.
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