Research on Fatigue Behavior of Metals and Alloys

Dear Colleagues,

In modern conditions of operation of machinery and constructions, the main tasks are to increase strength, resource, survivability, and durability. Extreme conditions in terms of mechanical, thermal, electromagnetic, hydro-, and aerodynamic repeated loads determine the presence of cyclic plastic deformations in the loaded zones. The most critical and unique products, machines, and structures are operated in cyclic deformation modes, which determine failure even at low loads. The durability and reliability of machines is largely determined by their fatigue resistance, since in the vast majority of cases for machine parts, the main type of loading is dynamic, repeated, and alternating loads, and the main type of failure is fatigue. The issues of fatigue and strength are the subject of the most careful consideration from the point of view of both scientific research and experimental design and technological developments. Fatigue strength and durability are important criteria for evaluating the health and resource of numerous parts and constructions. Their role is especially growing for modern highly loaded critical products exposed to cyclic loads in the field of low and high cycle fatigue. The difficulty in assessing the cyclic strength of construction materials is related to the fact that many different factors influence fatigue failure (structure, state of the surface layer, temperature and test conditions, loading frequency, stress concentration, cycle asymmetry, scale factor, and a number of others). Therefore, the study of the physical nature of changes in various parameters of metals during fatigue is of great scientific interest. The motivation for this investigation is to provide an insight into the behavior of materials under different conditions.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Sergey V. Konovalov
Guest Editor

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