Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue (SI) covers a wide range of modern achievements in the study of the behavior of solids with cracks—from studies of cyclic durability and the nucleation and growth of a fatigue crack to solving a number of complex problems of fracture mechanics. In this SI, limiting and prelimiting equilibrium states of materials and structures under single, multiple, thermal, and dynamic loading in elastic, viscoelastic, and elastoplastic bodies with cracks will be considered. We also invite you to submit articles on new criteria for crack resistance of materials for structural integrity.

Considerable attention will be paid to the application of numerical methods for the analysis of stresses and strains in solids and constructions with notches and cracks. We will also be glad to see the results of studies on predicting the operability of structures according to the test data of laboratory samples, taking into account the scale factor based on similarity criteria for local fractures.

Considerable attention will be paid to research methods and the basic laws of fatigue and cyclic crack resistance of metals and alloys in deterministic and probabilistic settings. Also relevant for consideration are the characteristics of high cyclic fatigue for materials manufactured by new technological methods. We invite articles devoted to the basic laws of cyclic plasticity and fatigue of metals and alloys (especially those produced by additive manufacturing).

We also invite papers devoted to the deformation and energy criteria of fatigue fracture of metals estimation by FEM and experimental verification. Particular attention will be paid to the development of methods for accelerated determination of endurance limits based on deformation and energy criteria. The problem of predicting the development of cracks and probabilistic fatigue modeling will also be discussed.

Prof. Dr. José António Correia
Prof. Dr. Abílio Manuel Pinho de Jesus
Prof. Dr. Guian Qian
Prof. Dr. Pavlo Maruschak
Guest Editors

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• fatigue
• fracture mechanics
• fatigue crack growth
• structural integrity
• computer-aided fracture mechanics
• computer-aided structural integrity
• failure mechanisms
• cyclic plasticity
• applications and design codes
• probabilistic fatigue modeling