In the last decades, many catastrophic events due to the rupture of metallic components have been traced back to fretting fatigue. In order to avoid failures due to such a contact phenomenon, many researchers have focused on fretting fatigue behaviour of different materials. In the present work, an experimental campaign carried out on an Al7075-T6 aluminium alloy is simulated by employing a multiaxial fatigue criterion proposed for fretting fatigue. The configuration simulated is a flat-to-flat bridge-shaped contact, characterised by cyclic normal load, with different frequencies, as well as different level of fatigue loading applied to the specimen.
