Characterization and Modelling of Fracture and Fatigue in Metallic Materials

Dear Colleagues,

In order to ensure the prevention of sudden and catastrophic failures in industrial and civil metallic structures (such as pipes, vessels, machinery, engines, rotating components, automobiles, trains, turbine blades, ship hulls and bridges), numerous researchers have dedicated their studies to understanding the phenomena of fracture and fatigue for more than a century. During this time, the field of the fracture and failure of metallic materials has progressed significantly owing to the development of new theories, and advances in computational methods and experimental techniques, and corrective, diagnostic and preventive tools have matured. However, with the development of new materials, technologies and manufacturing processes, revolutionary advancements in the fracture and fatigue failure of metallic materials are required.

This Special Issue aims to collect a wide range of original contributions on various aspects of fatigue and fracture for metallic materials. Articles on both experimental and modelling aspects of fatigue and fracture related to the following topics are particularly welcomed:

• Additively manufactured metals;
• Functionally graded materials;
• Advanced conventional metals;
• Surface modification technological processes (e.g., laser shot peening);
• Novel testing techniques and modeling for fracture and fatigue investigation (e.g., small sample test techniques and local approaches);
• Local strain analyses by digital image correlation (DIC);
• The modeling and simulation of degradation processes;
• The structural integrity of metallic components;
• Fatigue strength and fatigue limits;
• Fatigue design (infinite lifetime, fail-safe, safe-life or damage tolerance concepts);
• Metallic structural components containing defects;
• Ductile damage (e.g., fracture locus determination, triaxiality and Lode angle influence on the failure);
• Crack initiation and propagation under cyclic loading;
• Fracture toughness assessment and its applications (e.g., subsize specimens and thin sheets);
• New approaches for FLC/FLD diagrams;
• Dynamic loading;
• The improvement of material properties to increase resistance against brittle fracture.

Dr. Pavel Konopík
Prof. Dr. Jan Džugan
Guest Editors

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