Fatigue Damage Mechanisms and Life Prediction of Aerospace Materials and Structures
A Special Issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) belonging to the section "Aerospace Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2027 | Viewed by 23
Editor
Interests: damage mechanics; finite element analysis; mechanics of materials; solid mechanics; mechanical behavior of materials; failure analysis; plasticity; finite element modeling; fatigue of materials; fatigue; fracture analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Aerospace materials and structures are subjected to complex cyclic loading and harsh service environments throughout their operational life, making fatigue damage one of the primary factors affecting structural integrity, reliability, and service safety. With the increasing use of advanced metallic materials, composites, additively manufactured materials, and lightweight multifunctional structures, conventional fatigue theories and life prediction approaches face new challenges associated with complex loading histories, material heterogeneity, manufacturing defects, environmental effects, and multiscale damage evolution.
This Special Issue, entitled "Fatigue Damage Mechanisms and Life Prediction of Aerospace Materials and Structures," aims to provide a forum for recent advances in the understanding, characterization, modeling, and prediction of fatigue damage in aerospace applications. Contributions addressing both fundamental mechanisms and engineering methodologies are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, fatigue damage mechanisms; crack initiation and propagation; high-cycle, low-cycle, very-high-cycle, and multiaxial fatigue; thermo-mechanical and environmental fatigue; damage tolerance and structural integrity; fatigue of advanced and additively manufactured materials; multiscale and computational modeling; probabilistic fatigue and reliability; data-driven and machine learning-assisted life prediction; structural health monitoring; and experimental methods for fatigue characterization.
Original research articles, review papers, and perspective contributions related to these topics are warmly invited.
Dr. Zhixin Zhan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fatigue damage
- fatigue life prediction
- aerospace materials and structures
- crack initiation and propagation
- damage tolerance
- structural integrity
- multiaxial fatigue
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