This work investigates crack initiation life for AISI 316 stainless steel solid cylinders with transverse circular holes under in-phase and out-of- phase multiaxial loading. Elastic–plastic finite element analysis is applied to determine the local stress/ This work investigates crack initiation life for AISI 316 stainless steel solid cylinders with transverse circular holes under in-phase and out-of- phase multiaxial loading. Elastic–plastic finite element analysis is applied to determine the local stress/