Fatigue Failure Analysis of Mechanical Components

Dear Colleagues,

It is widely accepted that fatigue is the most common failure mode of mechanical components. Losses due to fatigue failures, annually, are over several millions to billions of dollars. Apart from these economic losses, fatigue failures are also responsible for causing major safety concerns due to the rapid and often undetectable nature of the final mechanical components’ fracture.

This Special Issue will bring together papers in various aspects of deformation, fatigue, and fracture behavior of engineering materials to facilitate exchange of recent advances in the area of fatigue of mechanical components. We welcome papers relating to the following topics: Novel experimental testing and numerical methods to characterize fatigue crack formation and multistage growth, mechanisms and growth of fatigue cracks from defects, new multiaxial fatigue life prediction methodologies, new methods for notch root analysis, size and gradient effects, prediction of scatter in fatigue behavior of materials due to variability in materials microstructures and service conditions, mechanisms of micro and macro fracture in advanced materials, design against fatigue damage and failure, multiscale constitutive modeling to simulate fatigue and fracture evolution, high temperature deformation, and techniques to characterize and predict creep fatigue-oxidation interaction.

We also welcome papers in the area of microstructure-sensitive fatigue design that represents a rapidly evolving area in Computational Solid Mechanics, which is central to addressing the influence of microstructures and defects on fatigue life and future needs for more predictive fatigue design of mechanical components for various applications.

Dr. Gbadebo Owolabi
Guest Editor

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