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Failure Mechanisms
· The lifetime to fatigue failure is dependent on the mean stress acting on the sample. 
· Lifetime is decreased if the mean stress is tensile, and increased if the mean stress is compressive.
From: Hertzberg, "Deformation & Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials," Wiley (1976)
· The S-N curves for several mean stress levels are shown, also three models for estimating the reduced lifetime under tensile values of the mean stress.
* Goodman: σa = σN(1 - {σm /σUTS} ) 
* Gerber: σa = σN(1 - {σm /σUTS}2 )
* Soderberg: σa = σN(1 - {σm /σy} )