Stress gradient method according to Papadopoulos

[tesric]

Hello everybody.
Can anybody please give me some details about the stress gradient method developed by Papadopoulos? It deals with the effect of stress gradients on the fatigue life of a mechanical component.
Thank you very much.

 

[cb1990]

heres a white paper with details:

http://www.solid.chalmers.se/~anek/research/fi.pdf

 

[tesric]

cb1990,
thank you very much!

Riccardo Testi