Multiscale Fatigue Design

Dear Colleagues,

With the advance of new materials in different engineering fields, and in particular of nano-materials and thin coatings, attention has to be paid to the fracture mechanism at different scale levels. This issue is not easy to deal with because, in small bodies, the high ratio between surface and volume makes the local discontinuities present in the material non negligible.

This Special Issue embraces interdisciplinary work aimed at understanding and deploying mechanisms involved in fatigue damage and failures occurring at all scale levels (from nano to macro), advancing experimental and theoretical failure analyses, modelling of the structural response with respect to both local and global failures, and structural design that accounts for scale and time effects in preventing catastrophic failures of components and structures.

Prof. Dr. Filippo Berto
Guest Editor

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