“…In particular, exhaust manifolds undergo small scale yielding in service in their most stressed points, up to 1 pct equivalent plastic strain at full load, [9] and thermo-mechanical fatigue occurs in the low-cycle, elastic-plastic regime. [9][10][11][12] For the above reasons, previous studies, concerning the fatigue behavior of Si-Mo cast irons, have been almost exclusively devoted to low-cycle, low strain rate fatigue at elevated temperature, [9][10][11][12] or to thermal fatigue. [13] In particular, the maximum strain rate during previous high-temperature fatigue tests was equal to or lower than 10 À3 s À1 [11,12] and the number of cycles was less than 30,000.…”