Fatigue and Damage in Metallic Materials
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 65
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fatigue; fracture mechanism; life prediction; design against fatigue
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: fatigue; fatigue-creep; life prediction; design methodology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fatigue is believed to be one of the key factors that causes the failure of engineering structures. The research on fatigue has a long history and has evolved gradually since it was first published in 1854 and pioneered by Wöhler in the 1860s. The various types of engineering applications (aircrafts, rotating components, bridges, automobiles, trains, etc.), different kinds of fatigue failure (constant/variable/random load fatigue, fretting fatigue, creep fatigue, corrosion fatigue, thermo-mechanical fatigue, etc.) and the accompanying complex mechanisms among different materials and structures (steels, alloys, composites, welded joints, etc.) make fatigue a complicated topic that fuels research into the fatigue design method.
The process of metal fatigue damage is complex, and there are significant differences in the mechanism, deformation characteristics, and failure modes of metal fatigue damage under different load types and service environments. The deformation characteristics and damage mechanisms are essentially a multi-scale process, which needs both cross-scale modeling and experiments. The improvement of the modeling and understanding the full life of metal fatigue damage can provide a theoretical basis and technical guidance for the safe operation and maintenance of equipment.
The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight recent advances related to fatigue and damage of metallic materials to ensure safety, reliability and long-term stability of engineering components in extreme service environments.
Prof. Dr. Mingliang Zhu
Dr. Jianguo Gong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fatigue damage
- fracture mechanism
- life prediction
- design criterion
- strength assessment
- metallic materials
- extreme environment
- failure analysis
- designs against fatigue
