The influences of stress ratio (R) on fatigue crack growth (FCG) of thermoset epoxy resin with polyamine hardener were investigated. The FCG growth rates (da/dN) have been correlated by the linear-elastic fracture mechanics parameters (ΔK and Kmax), and nonlinear-elastic fracture mechanics parameter (ΔJ). The effects of R on FCG were observed when the ΔK and ΔJ were used as fracture mechanics parameters for FCG. However, the Kmax successfully characterized FCG under cyclic-dependent condition (FCGs at R = 0.1 and 0.4); but it failed to characterize the FCG under time-dependent condition (FCG at R = 0.7). As a time-dependent fracture mechanics parameter, C* was applied to correlate the time-dependent FCG rate (da/dt). A reasonable agreement was obtained between time-dependent FCG (R = 0.7) and creep crack growth (CCG) results. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.