Probabilistic Mechanical Fatigue and Fracture of Materials

Dear Colleagues,

When designing structural and mechanical engineering components, general structural integrity criteria must be met. This ensures that the component will satisfactorily perform its designed function, supporting loads or resisting any kind of action causing stress and strains to the material without catastrophic failure. Consequently, during the last decades a large number of works were performed to allow fatigue and fracture to be reliably predicted. Nevertheless, the diversity of test conditions, failure mechanisms, damage evolution, component functionalities and loading types, as well as the specificity of material properties and the difficulty of achieving unambiguous material characterization, have impeded the discovery of a satisfactory solution to all failure questions.

With this aim, we invite other researchers to participate with relevant works that contribute to updating the state-of-the-art in this domain, through a Special Issue entitled “Probabilistic Mechanical Fatigue and Fracture of Materials”. Its scope encompasses methodologies that facilitate an objective material characterization, to advanced damage models that guarantee the transfer from experimental results to the design of real components. We expect to attract papers with some probabilistic background related to innovative experimental methodologies, theoretical and applied fracture and fatigue theories, advanced numerical models, and examples of real applications related to advanced materials. Nevertheless, other topics related to fracture and fatigue are also welcome.

Prof. Alfonso Fernández-Canteli
Dr. Miguel Muniz-Calvente
Guest Editors

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