Fatigue Behavior Analysis of Metals and Alloys

Dear Colleagues,

Understanding the fatigue behavior of metals and their alloys still is a major concern when applications subjected to dynamic loadings are envisaged. Challenges are raised either from materials side, with new alloys and processing technologies being continuously developed, as well as from the loadings side, where multiaxiality, mechanical-thermal interactions, complex variable amplitude loading, extreme cyclic loadings become very often in real applications. The understanding of the physics of the fatigue phenomena in the referred background and its accurate modeling are essential factors for the safe, efficient and resilient design of new mechanical components and structures. This Special Issue intends to gather original contributions aiming the investigation on the fatigue behavior of metals and alloys covering the following related topics:

• Fatigue performance of new alloys;
• Effects of manufacturing processes on fatigue behavior (additive, subtractive, etc);
• Multiaxial fatigue;
• Extreme low-cycle fatigue and very high-cycle fatigue;
• Fatigue damage under variable amplitude loading;
• Fatigue modeling covering various approaches (ex. Phenomenological, Microstructural based; Fracture Mechanics, Probabilistic Approaches);
• Fretting fatigue;
• Size effects;
• Mechanical-thermal loads interactions;
• Fatigue behavior of mechanical components and structural details;
• Numerical simulation of fatigue damage.

Prof. Dr. Abílio M.P. De Jesus
Prof. Dr. Filippo Berto
Guest Editors

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