Advances in Very-High-Cycle Fatigue

Dear Colleagues,

In the early 90s, the disconcerting finding of fatigue failures beyond 10⁸ cycles and below the conventional fatigue limit has been the main driver for the rapid diffusion of research in the so-called very-high-cycle fatigue (VHCF) regime of materials. Recently, the research on VHCF has been further boosted by the need to fill in the gap of knowledge regarding the structural integrity of machinery parts whose performance—in terms of expected life, applied load, and speed—is drastically increasing.

This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the VHCF response of materials, focusing on recent experimental results on the mechanism of crack initiation, innovative testing methodologies, and probabilistic models capable of describing the fatigue response beyond 10⁸ cycles.

Prof. Dr. Massimo Rossetto
Dr. Davide S. Paolino
Dr. Andrea Tridello
Guest Editors

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