Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Metals: Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modeling
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced finite-element simulations; structural analysis of metallic structures; continuum mechanics; fatigue; damage mechanics
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Interests: shape memory alloys; thermo-mechanical coupling; advanced finite-element simulations; phase-field damage modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The plastic strains, evolution and accumulation of damage, which can result in fracture of metallic materials, is the topic of this Special Issue, with emphasis on both experimental characterization and numerical modeling. The complex behavior of metallic material during large‐strain loading can be described by selected constitutive and damage models. Particular attention is given to lightweight and high‐strength materials such as steels, aluminum, magnesium and titanium alloys.
Experimental testing under various stress states including tension, shear, multiaxial loading, anisotropy, strain‐rate and temperature influences is a central topic. Special interest is directed toward identifying and characterizing the initiation, growth and coalescence of cracks.
Constitutive modeling contributions should focus on frameworks that couple inelastic deformation and damage evolution, continuum damage mechanics, phase‐field approaches for crack initiation and propagation. Numerical implementation into finite-element software, along with rigorous calibration and validation against experimental data, forms a critical part of these studies.
Overall, the Special Issue aims to advance the state of the art in understanding how metals behave under complex loading up to failure, how to reliably measure the key variables governing this behavior and how to translate these insights into robust constitutive models for design and simulation.
Prof. Dr. Miroslav Zivkovic
Dr. Vladimir Dunić
Prof. Dr. Nenad Gubeljak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plastic deformation
- inelastic strains
- steel
- aluminum
- alloys
- large strain behavior
- finite element method
- damage
- phase field
- fracture
- crack initiation and evolution
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