Experiments were conducted on the same materials, which were used in the previous study, 15) where fatigue strength in smooth and notched specimens, and the growth of so-called short fatigue cracks were investigated. In this work are minutely presented only the results conducted on a commercially produced low-carbon steel (marked steel 1) and two HSLA steels (steel 2 and 3). The steels marked 1a and 1b exhibited coarse-grain microstructures produced by heat treating of steel 1.Single edge notch, three point bend specimens machined perpendicularly and parallelly to the rolling direction had a ISIJ International, Vol. 43 (2003) Fatigue crack growth (FCG) and threshold stress intensity in low carbon and HSLA steels with remarkably different ferrite grain sizes (d f ) at room temperature and temperature of liquid nitrogen were investigated. The FCG rates were found to decrease with decreasing temperature for all investigated microstructural states and the influence of temperature decrease was the most significant in coarse grain microstructures. The threshold values of the stress intensity factor, (DK th ), below which cracks do not propagate, decreased by between 29.1 % (d f ϭ2.7 mm) and 49.3 % (d f ϭ88.4 mm) when specimens were tested at the cryogenic temperature.A general relationship between the FCG rate, the effects of grain boundary blocking on the plastic zone size and/or the crack-tip opening displacement and the effect of changing temperature, is discussed. Furthermore, the concept of a functional relation between tensile and fatigue data at cryogenic temperatures was also investigated. It was shown that the ratio of DK th at 77 K to DK th at 295 K is proportional to the second root of the ratio of the tensile strength values at these temperatures i.e. DK th 77 K /DK th 295K £ (s u 77 K /s u 295 K ) 1/2 .