Rapid Determination of the S-N Curve for Steel by means of the Thermographic Method

Table 4

Summary of fatigue life for the individual specimens made of X5CrNi18-10 steel in the accelerated tests.

Specimen		Number 1	Number 2	Number 3
Level of fatigue failure		18	17	16
Failure stress, MPa		400	390	380
Total fatigue life, in cycles		518 400	487 300	457 600