“…Further, the MMCCM used in conjunction with the -MVM was seen to be capable of accurately taking into account the effect of superimposed static strains as well (see Figure 6b). Subsequently, our fatigue assessment method was used to predict the fatigue lifetime of samples of Al7075-T651 [41], S460N [48] and 304SS [55] tested under combined CA axial and torsional sinusoidal/triangular strain signals of different frequencies. By focussing attention on the considered sinusoidal load histories, it is possible to observe that under a ratio between the frequency of the axial channel, F x , and the frequency of the torsional channel, F xy , equal to 2, the resulting stress/strain history relative to the critical plane was composed of one shear stress/strain cycle and two normal stress cycles (see Path F in Figure 7).…”