Recent Advances in Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 301
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanical engineering; mechanical properties; fracture mechanics; mechanical behavior of materials; microstructure; mechanical testing; failure analysis; construction; metals; fracture
Interests: friction stir welding; aluminum alloys; mechanical behavior of materials; microstructure; fatigue
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Interests: laser beam welding; hybrid laser arc welding; additive manufacturing; mechanical behavior of materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fatigue properties are crucial in a wide range of structural materials utilized in civil engineering, automotive, energy industry, aeronautics and amon many others. Current trends and challenges in design require the development of new materials and wide knowledge about their properties. Metals, their alloys and more and more often composites are used due to their specific mechanical properties, useful especially in the conditions of fatigue loads. Fatigue and fracture of engineering materials have a complex nature and their course depend on various factors such as material state, loading conditions, environment and their combinations.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect and share with a wide community of researchers the results of scientific research, addressing the recent advances in fatigue and fracture of materials. It will cover a wide range of topics including: the phenomena accompanying the process of crack initiation and propagation, the influence of different factors on fatigue life, development of approaches in fatigue life estimation, description of failure mechanisms, description and analysis of fracture surfaces, the influence of residual stresses on cracking, effect of microstructure, texture, and grain boundaries on fatigue life, and others.
Thus, we invite the researchers working in the described area to present their latest results in the form of original research and review articles. Papers that present experimental results are highly appreciated, as well as those that focus on numerical techniques for fatigue life assessment.
Dr. Tomasz Ślęzak
Dr. Robert Kosturek
Dr. Krzysztof Grzelak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metals
- composite materials
- mechanical properties
- fatigue behaviour
- failure mechanisms description
- fatigue life prediction
- residual stresses
- fracture analysis
