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Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Materials

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanics of Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 299

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School of Engineering, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA 24515, USA
Interests: multiscale materials modeling; microstructure—property constitutive modeling; finite deformation inelasticity; damage evolution; fracture; fatigue

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School of Engineering, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA 24515, USA
Interests: inelasticity and constitutive modeling of solid materials; integrated multiscale modeling for solid materials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, entitled “Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Materials”, is pleased to receive original research and review articles on the broad areas of the mechanics of fatigue and the fracture of solids, including metals, metallic alloys, ceramics, polymers, and composites. This Special Issue welcomes experimental, theoretical, and numerical/computational studies of the failure mechanisms and/or structure–property relationship regarding damage/fracture and fatigue at various length scales. The articles are expected to mainly focus on, but not be limited to, low-cycle fatigue, high-cycle fatigue, creep fatigue, creep-induced intergranular/intragranular cavity formation, multistage fatigue mechanisms, fracture/damage mechanisms, experimental characterization of such mechanisms, associated theoretical/computational investigation, involved integrated multiscale modeling methodologies, structure–property relationship investigation, constitutive models and their validation, applied material modeling for practical boundary value problems, etc

Dr. Mark F. Horstemeyer
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Dr. Heechen E. Cho
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • fatigue
  • fracture
  • damage
  • constitutive model
  • multiscale modeling
  • microstructure

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19 pages, 8136 KiB  
Article
Evaluation of Material Integrity Using Higher-Order Harmonic Generation in Propagating Shear Horizontal Ultrasonic Waves
by Rafał Radecki and Wiesław J. Staszewski
Materials 2024, 17(16), 3960; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17163960 - 9 Aug 2024
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Abstract
Material nonlinearity is explored for the assessment of structural integrity. Crack–wave interactions are of particular interest. The major focus is on higher-order harmonics, generated in propagating shear horizontal (SH) waves. These harmonics are generated due to global material nonlinearity and local effects such [...] Read more.
Material nonlinearity is explored for the assessment of structural integrity. Crack–wave interactions are of particular interest. The major focus is on higher-order harmonics, generated in propagating shear horizontal (SH) waves. These harmonics are generated due to global material nonlinearity and local effects such as fatigue cracks. The theoretical background of the proposed method is explained. The method is examined using numerical simulations and experimental tests. The former involves the Local Interaction Simulation Approach (LISA), implemented for the nonlinear shear horizontal wavefield. The latter is based on a high-frequency shear excitation approach. Experimental tests are conducted using a series of beam specimens with fatigue cracks. Low-profile, surface-bonded piezoceramic shear actuators are used for excitation. The excitation frequency is selected to minimize the number of generated modes in the examined specimens. Nonlinear ultrasonic responses are collected using a non-contact laser vibrometer. The results show that higher-order harmonic generation—based on shear horizontal wave propagation—can be used for crack detection in the presence of global material nonlinearity. Full article
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