Failure Behavior in Metals and Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 1576
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fatigue; fracture mechanics; multiscale modeling and simulations; constitutive modeling & finite element applications; additive manufacturing; high strain rate testing and materials characterization; structural health monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metals and alloys are the most widely used materials in mechanical components. However, these components are prone to failures of various forms. Losses due to component failures, annually, are over several millions to billions of dollars. Apart from these economic losses, mechanical component failures are also responsible for causing major safety concerns due to the rapid and often undetectable nature of the final mechanical components’ fracture, especially under fatigue load.
This Special Issue will bring together papers in various aspects of failure behavior in metals and alloys to facilitate exchange of recent advances in the field. We welcome papers relating to all aspects of failure behavior of metals and alloys, including but not limited to the following topics: novel experimental testing and numerical methods to characterize fatigue crack formation and multistage growth, mechanisms and growth of fatigue cracks from defects, new multiaxial fatigue life prediction methodologies, new methods for notch root analysis, size and gradient effects, prediction of scatter in fatigue behavior of materials due to variability in materials microstructures and service conditions, mechanisms of micro and macro fracture in advanced materials, design against fatigue damage and failure, multiscale constitutive modeling to simulate fatigue and fracture evolution, high temperature deformation, and techniques to characterize and predict creep fatigue–oxidation interaction, and other topics relating to failure behavior of metals and alloys.
We also welcome papers in the area of microstructure-sensitive fatigue design that represents a rapidly evolving area in computational solid mechanics, which is central to addressing the influence of microstructures and defects on fatigue life and future needs for more predictive fatigue design of mechanical components for various applications.
Dr. Gbadebo Owolabi
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- deformation
- fatigue
- fracture
- metals
- alloys
- mechanical properties
- microstructure
- failure
