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Precracks generated in purely compressive cycles permit a determination of threshold values ΔKth and crack growth curves with increasing load amplitude only. They also permit to measure the effective threshold ΔKeff th and the dependence of ΔKth on crack length. The production of such precracks is also discussed.
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Pıppan et al. (1994) studied this question.
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