Research on the Fatigue and Crack Behavior of Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The disciplines of fatigue and fracture are central to many industries, including aerospace, rail, offshore, power generation, nuclear power, manufacturing, etc. This Special Issue welcomes papers that address the fatigue and fracture of both conventional engineering materials as well as new materials and manufacturing processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Conventionally built metals and the associated manufacturing systems;
• Conventionally built composite structures and the related manufacturing processes;
• Welded structures;
• Conventionally built polymer structures and the relevant manufacturing processes;
• Adhesively bonded structures and the associated pre-bond preparation processes;
• Adhesively bonded repairs to both metallic and composite structures;
• Additively manufactured (AM) metals and the related manufacturing processes;
• Tools for assessing the build quality of additively manufactured and cold spray additively manufactured materials (CSAMs);
• Cold spray additively built materials (both metals and polymers) and the associated manufacturing processes;
• Cold spray repairs to metallic structures;
• Tools for assessing the pre-deposition surface treatment and the quality/acceptability of cold spray repairs;
• The durability and damage tolerance (DADT) of conventionally built, AM and CSAM metallic and polymer structures;
• Experimental methods for assessing the fatigue and fracture of structures;
• The development of test standards for the fatigue of fiber composite structures, particularly delamination growth;
• The development of test standards for the fatigue of adhesively bonded structures;
• The development of test standards for the fatigue of additively manufactured and cold spray additively manufactured materials, both metals and polymers;
• Research into new experimental approaches;
• Experimental and computational/analytical studies into the durability and damage tolerance of conventionally built, AM and CSAM metals/polymers.
• Experimental and computational/analytical studies into the durability of cold spray and bonded repairs;
• Advances in fracture mechanics—experimental, computational or theoretical;
• Advances in the understanding fatigue—experimental, computational or theoretical;

Prof. Dr. Rhys Jones
Guest Editor

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