Environment-Assisted Fracture and Fatigue Behavior of Metals
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2022) | Viewed by 293
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environment-assisted fracture and fatigue behavior; computationally guided innovative materials and manufacturing design; multi-scale simulation modeling of microstructural evolution in additive manufacturing process
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crack formation often leads to unexpected sudden failure of normally ductile materials. Fatigue failure is one of the most common mechanical failure modes, where cracks are initiated mostly at microstructural heterogeneity and impurities. In the corrosive environment, fatigue may initiate from the corroded sites (e.g., pitting sites) instead of existent voids. Therefore, the correlation between the complex microstructure/defects of metals and corrosion-related behavior is becoming important in those applications where the environmental effect plays a critical role. However, compared with the large number of studies that are focused on mechanical properties of novel metallic materials, the corrosion-related issues—in particular, environment-assisted fracture and fatigue behaviors—have been much less explored.
For this Special Issue of Metals, we welcome reviews and articles in the area of environment-assisted fracture and fatigue behavior of metallic materials. The idea is to demonstrate the recent advancement on this topic in a broad range, including but not limited to: the evaluation of novel metallic materials such as advanced manufactured alloys and high-entropy alloys in terms of their environment-assisted fracture and fatigue behavior, the development of multiphysics computational modeling framework for environment-related phenomena, data-driven approaches to predict the failure mode of fatigue behaviors in corrosive environments, etc.
Dr. Yao Fu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environment-assisted fracture
- corrosion fatigue
- multiphysics modeling
- microstructural effects
- failure evaluation and prediction
