“…Parameters a, b are material parameters, which take fatigue behavior under pure axial stress and pure torsion into account. In the case discussed in this paper (but not in the original formulation) they also take the Poisson's ratio into account . The values and are stress integrals: with τ θψ,a and σ θψ,a shear and normal stress amplitudes respectively in a plane, whose normal vector is defined by the angles .…”