“…This criterion describes the impact of the defect through the local stress gradient that the defect creates at the local scale. The DSG criterion describes the effect of morphology [22,23], multi-axial loading, including load ratio effect [24], and has been improved with the analytical Eshelby theory [17] that allows the criterion to be applied as a post treatment of a Finite Element (FE) computation of complex parts in order to plot defect size maps [25]. The criterion has been tested on several materials: cast Ti64, cast A345T6, cast A357T6, nodular cast iron, cast Inconel 718, 1045 steel, and ARMCO iron, and has shown good results when the identification procedure carefully accounts for the defect type.…”