Fatigue strength prediction of soda-lime glass

The fatigue life of soda-lime glass depends on the cumulative time of static fatigue because this material displays little or no crack resistance behavior. The fatigue strength data suggests that the statistical Weibull, normal or log-normal distributions could be used. In order to include the effects of loading and stress concentrators, an equivalent stress is defined and used to correlate the data. The method for predicting the fatigue strength of soda-lime glass is established on the basis of the distribution of the fatigue strength.