Example
- The stress history in Figure 2 is reduced to peaks and troughs in Figure 3.
- Half-cycle (A) starts at tensile peak (1) and terminates opposite a greater tensile stress, peak (2). Its magnitude is 16 MPa.
- Half-cycle (B) starts at tensile peak (4) and terminates where it is interrupted by a flow from an earlier peak, (3), Its magnitude is 17 MPa.
- Half-cycle (C) starts at tensile peak (5) and terminates at the end of the time history.
- Similar half-cycles are calculated for compressive stresses (Figure 4) and the half-cycles are then matched.
| Stress (MPa) | Whole cycles | Half cycles |
| 10 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | 0 | 1 |
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