“…The detailed case study presented in this paper finally led to an employment of the local stress-strain approach using a statistical assessment. An analysis of fatigue lifetime and the causes of an early fatigue fracture may be carried out by several known methods: using local stress-strain approaches [1,2], statistical approaches [3,4], deterministic fatigue analysis (experimental) [2], spectral fatigue analysis [5,6], time-domain fatigue analysis, fracture-mechanics-based assessment of fatigue damage [1,7], etc. The detailed case study presented in this paper finally led to an employment of the local stress-strain approach using a statistical assessment.…”