Fatigue, Fracture and Damage of Steels—2nd Edition
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 1058
Special Issue Editors
Interests: steels; cold drawing; engineering failure analysis; material characterization; fracture behaviour of materials; mechanical behavior of materials; mechanical testing; fractographic analysis; fatigue; fracture; damage; structural integrity; environmentally assisted cracking; stress corrosion cracking; hydrogen assisted cracking; hydrogen embrittlement; wire drawing; plasticity in steel; ferrite; cementite; pearlite; carbon steels; high-strength steels; inclusions in steels; finite element analysis
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Interests: fatigue; fracture; damage; structural integrity; environmentally assisted cracking; stress corrosion cracking; hydrogen assisted cracking; hydrogen embrittlement; wire drawing; plasticity in steel; ferrite; cementite; pearlite; carbon steels; high-strength steels
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Interests: material characterization; materials; mechanical properties; finite element analysis; mechanical behavior of materials; mechanical testing; stress analysis; materials testing; metals; fracture mechanics; metallurgical engineering; engineering drawing; failure analysis; corrosion testing; finite element method; plasticity; technical drawing; steel corrosion testing; experimental mechanics; computational analysis; micromechanics; corrosion engineering; micromechanics of materials; fractography; corrosion science; steelmaking; material testing; fatigue; fracture strength
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The structural integrity of steels against the phenomena of fatigue, fracture and damage is a problem of major technological concern in engineering due to the limited acceptable damage tolerance of metallic structures in civil, mechanical, naval, aeronautical and aerospace engineering, and the possibility of structural integrity loss when any kind of fatigue, fracture or damage develops in a material. The particular case of steel represents a topic of special importance due to the magnitude of steel production that makes it the main structural material used worldwide.
This Special Issue, “Fatigue, Fracture and Damage of Steels”, is dedicated to the latest scientific achievements in the field. Both review and original articles are welcome, together with technical notes. This Special Issue welcomes contributions of any kind in the fields of fatigue, fracture, damage, corrosion, stress corrosion, corrosion fatigue or hydrogen embrittlement of steels. All approaches will be encouraged, including theoretical, numerical and experimental ones. Different geometrical defects will be considered, such as cracks, notches, pits, scratches, crevices, etc. Any phase of the phenomena of fatigue, fracture or damage can be analyzed, i.e., from the early to the final stages, or any kind of loading (static, dynamic, cyclic, etc.), as well as any environment including aggressive or corrosive media.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue.
Dr. Francisco-Javier Ayaso
Dr. Beatriz González
Prof. Dr. Jesús Toribio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fatigue
- fracture
- damage
- structural integrity
- damage tolerance
- stress corrosion cracking
- hydrogen embrittlement
- cracks
- notches
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