Non-isothermal cyclic fatigue in an oscillating elastoplastic beam

We propose a temperature dependent model for fatigue accumulation in an oscillating elastoplastic beam. The full system consists of the momentum and energy balance equations, and an evolution equation for the fatigue rate. The main modeling hypothesis is that the fatigue accumulation rate is proportional to the dissipation rate. In nontrivial cases, the process develops a thermal singularity in finite time. The main result consists in proving the existence and uniqueness of a strong solution in a time interval depending on the size of the data