Fracture Mechanics of Metals
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 19141
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machine elements; materials technology; mechanical processes; tribology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metallic materials are widely used in various structural components, carrying increasingly heavy loads. Fracture is the most common failure mode in metallic materials. Fracture mechanics has successfully developed and advanced in the past few decades, focusing on the phenomena, the laws and the conditions from loading to fracture of the materials. Fractures of metallic materials are categorized as ductile fractures, brittle fractures and ductile-to-brittle transition, involving the multiscale phenomena of micro-crack initiation and propagation, small crack growth and long crack growth. With the increased complexity of loading conditions, service environment and material microstructure, etc., fracture in metallic materials could potential become a serious problem.
In order to understand the fracture behavior of metallic materials and evaluate such multiscale processes, this Special Issue collects basic and engineering research results of the fracture of various metallic materials. Contributions which improve our understanding of the mechanisms and mechanics of fracture behavior at micro-, meso-, and macroscopic scale from theoretical, experimental, and numerical perspectives are encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Stergios Maropoulos
Dr. Le Chang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fracture mechanics
- fracture mechanism
- crack initiation
- crack growth
- fracture toughness
- failure analysis
- fatigue damage
- numerical modeling