Repeated tension tests on centre-notched sheet specimens show that the rate of growth of fatigue cracks in polymethylmethacrylate is constant if the range of crack-tip stress-intensity factor is constant. Within the limits considered fatigue-crack growth rate was independent of specimen thickness and loading history.
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