Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Engineering Materials: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2027 | Viewed by 6
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Interests: structural integrity; fatigue; fracture; fatigue in corrosion environments; material characterization
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Dear Colleagues,
Fatigue and fracture remain the dominant failure mechanisms in engineering structures and mechanical components, accounting for approximately 80–90% of in-service failures. Ensuring the long-term durability, safety, and reliability of modern engineering systems therefore requires a continuous advancement in the understanding, prediction, and mitigation of these phenomena. The rapid emergence of advanced materials, innovative manufacturing technologies, and increasingly demanding service conditions is creating new challenges for structural design and integrity assessment. In particular, additive manufacturing, high-performance alloys, composite materials, multifunctional materials, and sustainable manufacturing processes are driving the need for novel approaches to fatigue and fracture analysis.
This Special Issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of cutting-edge research on fatigue, fracture mechanics, structural integrity, and durability assessment across all classes of materials. Emphasis is placed on emerging materials, advanced manufacturing routes, multiscale damage mechanisms, data-driven failure prediction, and next-generation design methodologies. Contributions addressing the influence of processing conditions, microstructural characteristics, loading spectra, environmental degradation, and complex service conditions on fatigue and fracture behavior are especially encouraged. Topics of interest also include computational mechanics, multiscale and multiphysics modeling, digital twins, structural health monitoring, uncertainty quantification, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data analytics for damage detection, life prediction, and reliability assessment. Both experimental and numerical investigations are welcome, as are hybrid approaches combining physics-based models with data-driven techniques. Applications spanning aerospace, automotive, energy, biomedical, marine, civil infrastructure, and other engineering sectors are of particular interest. The Special Issue welcomes both original research articles and comprehensive review papers that contribute to advancing the state of the art in fatigue, fracture, and structural integrity engineering.
Prof. Dr. Joel de Jesus
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fatigue
- fracture
- fatigue crack growth
- corrosion fatigue
- low-cycle fatigue
- high-cycle fatigue
- numerical fatigue analysis
- fatigue crack initiation
- variable amplitude fatigue
- fatigue damage accumulation
- failure analysis
- stress-based, strain-based, and energy-based criteria
- linear elastic fracture mechanics
- elasto-plastic fracture mechanics
- computational fracture mechanics
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