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🧮 Go straight to the calculator: to skip the derivation and use the online tool with a built-in verification flow, open the fatigue crack growth calculator from the large category cards on the calculators home page. 1. Where fatigue crack growth sits in an LBB analysis At the core of a Leak-Before-Break (LBB) argument: you must show that, over the service life, the time for an initial non-penetrating surface flaw to grow by subcritical crack growth through the wall and cause a leak — and the time from leak to growth to the critical fracture size — is long enough for the monitoring system to detect it and act. ...