Abstract
IT was recently shown1 that the fatigue law for a body of statistically distributed deformability should be of form: 
where ε is the plastic strain range, N is the number of cycles to cause rupture, and ε0 is the unidirectional rupture strain.
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Gittus, J. H., Nature, 202, 788 (1964).
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GITTUS, J., SUMNER, G. General Law for the Fatigue of Bodies having Statistically Distributed Deformability. Nature 206, 81–82 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206081a0
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