Fatigue Behavior, Crack Growth and Fatigue Life Assessment of Metallic Materials
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 10228
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In many fields of engineering, e.g., in the energy industry, land, air, and sea-based traffic applications as well as production technology, fatigue is often a limiting factor for component lifetime. Appropriate design, which mitigates the risk of premature fatigue failure, restricts the possibilities for weight reduction of safety critical components in many cases and, therewith, attempts to increase efficiency and sustainability. Against this backdrop, an in-depth understanding of the fatigue behavior of metallic materials, considering the highly complex interactions of alloy composition, manufacturing processes, microstructure, as well as manufacturing-induced defects, e.g., voids or inclusions, and surface morphology are essential for a reliable and efficient component design as well as for the improvement of existing and the development of novel engineering materials. Taking into account the ongoing progress in alloy design and manufacturing technology, this underlines that research into fatigue of metallic materials is, since the groundbreaking work by Wöhler in the 19th century, still a “hot” topic of exceptional interest in many fields of engineering as well as in fundamental research. Closely linked with gaining knowledge and understanding of the complex influences on the fatigue behavior of metals, advanced approaches of fatigue life prediction, which increasingly make use of complex stochastic methodology, are an essential prerequisite of an efficient and sustainable component design.
For this Special Issue, we welcome experimentally based and theoretical articles addressing the topics briefly outlined above. With contributions presenting fundamental aspects as well as results from application-oriented research, we plan to foster communication between materials science and engineering with the overall aim to improve the understanding of fatigue processes in metals as well as an appropriate application of this knowledge in component design.
Prof. Dr. Tilmann Beck
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Low-cycle fatigue (LCF)
- High-cycle fatigue (HCF)
- Very-high-cycle fatigue (VHCF)
- Thermomechanical fatigue (TMF)
- Cyclic deformation behavior
- Fatigue lifetime behavior
- Fatigue crack initiation and propagation
- Surface and manufacturing effects on the fatigue behavior
- Lifetime assessment methods for fatigue
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