Dear Colleagues,

The increasing demand for high-performance construction materials evokes the development of adequate constitutive modelling, as well as the appropriate predictions of overall failure mechanisms under complex thermo-mechanical loads. Fatigue, resulting from cyclic loading, is one of the most common and important phenomenon encountered in mechanical structures for different industrial applications. A correct prediction of this phenomenon is usually closely related to safety in addition to economic aspects.

Resistance to cyclic loading and creep are features of paramount importance in the assessment of construction materials used in airplanes, gas turbines, fossil fuel power plants, nuclear reactors, etc. For this reason, the effects of variable loads applied to structural elements at a wide range of temperatures are currently being researched in many scientific centres all over the world. These works result in new engineering materials, such as nickel-based superalloys, heat-resistant austenitic steels, and martensitic and light alloys.

Cyclic loads apply to a majority of structural elements. At the same time, the analysis of fatigue problems is much more complicated than research related to monotonic loads. Difficulties arise from the large number of cycles, resulting in the accumulation of various effects and tedious numerical calculations.

This Special Issue aims to present the latest achievements in the field of fatigue. We invite researchers to submit original research papers and review articles on the cyclic behaviours of various materials, including metals and geomaterials. Both experimental and theoretical studies related to different aspects of fatigue are warmly welcome.

Prof. Dr. Halina Egner
Prof. Dr. Stanisław Mroziński
Guest Editors

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• low-cycle/high-cycle/very high-cycle fatigue
• thermomechanical fatigue
• cumulative fatigue damage
• cyclic hardening/softening
• fatigue life
• multiaxial fatigue
• fatigue testing
• creep and fatigue
• stress concentration