A model of the crack initiation and life of a functionally graded material using additive manufacturing is developed using conventional fatigue-life analysis. A specimen geometry, an additive manufacturing process, materials, and loadings are selected. A review of literature provides data to permit the development of a fatigue model. A framework is presented on how to link the design of a specimen to the predicted fatigue performance. Functional gradings of material properties are specified by mapping a potential function to crack growth rates of two materials and interpolating between the crack growth rates to estimate the properties of the graded material. A Matlab application was created that implemented the developed fatigue model to reduce iteration time for the purposes of this thesis. The application was verified by comparing results to manual calculation and those obtained from commercial software. A case of a specimen with functionally graded Ti-6Al-4V alpha laths is analyzed. It was estimated that the crack growth life of the designed specimen with a functional grading of Ti-6Al-4V alpha lath size could be increased by 3% at a maximum gross stress of 400 MPa, by 18% at a maximum gross stress of 350 MPa, by 46% at a maximum gross stress of 300 MPa, by 93% at a maximum gross stress of 250 MPa, and by 138% at a maximum gross stress of 200 MPa. A second case is analyzed, where an ungraded 7075-T6 specimen is compared to a replacement specimen that is functionally graded from Ti-6Al-4V to 7075-T6 aluminium. It was estimated that the total fatigue life could be increased by approximately two to three orders of magnitude for a range of maximum gross stresses between 100-300 MPa. Several additional examples were presented on how the developed fatigue model and Matlab application could be improved. The results demonstrated that total fatigue life of functionally graded, additively manufactured materials can be modelled without the use of finite element analysis software, assuming a stress intensity solution is available for the geometry.