Advanced Models on Structural Fatigue Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Fatigue is one of the main causes of materials failure. For this reason, it is crucial to develop methodologies capable of predicting fatigue failure during the design process or of detecting it during the service life.

Regarding the fatigue design process, it can be described by the following three simple steps: determining the stress time histories, calculating the fatigue stress spectrum, and evaluating the total fatigue damage. Nevertheless, the loading type and the expected material response play an essential role in deciding which models will be used to solve these three steps, which is still an open issue that has not been solved in the literature. For this reason, we invite researchers to participate in this Special Issue with relevant works that contribute to updating the state-of-the-art about fatigue loading modelling, fatigue material characterization, fatigue failure determination, fatigue failure criteria, cycle counting techniques, fatigue damage accumulation models, and other relevant approaches focused on understanding the fatigue failure process.

On the other hand, in order to estimate or identify fatigue damage during service, structural health monitoring has become an alternative to the local inspection methods in the last decades. Nowadays, monitoring solutions are cost-effective, and many types of sensors and instrumentation are available to measure the different variables involved in damage detection, localization, and assessment. Accordingly, we invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue with papers focused on improving the state-of-the-art related to measurement techniques (accelerations, displacements, strains, etc.), signal processing (filtering, Fourier transformations, windows functions, etc.), stress estimation, damage accumulation and detection, finite element model updating technics, and other topics related to the fatigue monitoring of real structures in service.

In summary, we invite researchers to submit relevant works in the Special Issue titled “Advanced Models on Structural Fatigue Monitoring” in order to share the methodologies that facilitate the fatigue assessment and the calculation of the remaining fatigue life of structures and mechanical systems while they are in operation.

Prof. Alfonso Fernández-Canteli
Dr. Miguel Muniz-Calvente
Prof. Manuel López Aenlle
Prof. Fernández Fernández Pelayo
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.