Creep, Fatigue and Creep-Fatigue Properties of Advanced Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Creep and fatigue resistance are the critical requirements for the materials used at high temperatures. Advanced heat-resistant materials such as nickel-based superalloys, heat-resistant austenitic and martensitic steels, and light alloys are being developed for applications in aircraft gas turbines, fossil power plants, nuclear reactors etc. To ensure structural safety, various studies of materials’ strength under complicated conditions are carried out:

• Creep deformation and mechanisms;
• Low cycle fatigue, high cycle fatigue, very high cycle fatigue;
• Creep-fatigue interaction testing;
• Effect of composition, microstructural design, phase composition on the creep and fatigue behavior;
• Microstructural evolution under creep and cyclic loading;
• Failure analysis;
• Modeling and simulation of creep and fatigue deformation;
• Crack growth;
• Lifetime prediction, etc.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present the latest achievements in the theoretical and experimental investigations of creep, fatigue and creep-fatigue behavior of metallic materials.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Nadezhda Dudova
Dr. Mishnev Roman
Guest Editors

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