The paper presents a review of multiaxial fatigue failure criteria based on the critical plane concept. The criteria have been divided into three groups, according to the fatigue damage parameter used in the criterion, i.e. (i) stress, (ii) strain and (iii) strain energy density criteria. Each criterion was described mainly by the critical plane orientation. Multiaxial fatigue criteria based on the critical plane concept usually apply different loading parameters in the critical plane whose orientation is determined by (a) only shear loading parameters (crack Mode II or III), (b) only normal loading parameters (crack Mode I) or sometimes (c) mixed loading parameters (mixed crack Mode). There are also criteria based on few critical plane orientations and criteria based on critical plane orientations determined by a weighted averaging process of rotating principal stress axes.

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The paper presents the comparison of experimental and calculated fatigue lives for EN AW-6082 T6 aluminium alloy. Hour-glass shaped specimens have been subjected to constant and variable amplitude uniaxial and multiaxial loadings, i.e. plane bending, torsion and their proportional combinations with zero mean values. Three multiaxial fatigue criteria based on the critical plane approach have been verified being the linear combination of shear and normal stresses on the critical plane. For the variable-amplitude loading, the rainflow cycle counting method and Palmgren-Miner hypothesis have been applied. The best fatigue criteria are pointed in the final conclusions.

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