Fatigue and collapse of cyclically bent strip of amorphous solid

Abstract Fatigue caused by cyclic bending of a piece material, resulting in its mechanical failure, is phenomenon that had been studied for ages engineers and physicists alike. In this letter we study such fatigue strip an athermal amorphous solid. On the basis atomistic simulations conclude crucial quantity to focus on accumulated damage . Although exhibits large sample-to-sample fluctuations, dependence loading determines statistics number cycles failure. Thus can provide scaling theory Wöhler plots mean failure as function amplitude.