Advances in Fatigue and Fracture of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 441
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiaxial fatigue; fatigue life prediction; damage modeling; experimental mechanics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to disseminate high-quality original research in relation to the fatigue and fracture of fiber-reinforced polymers. These advanced materials have numerous applications, including structural elements, and are present in almost every aspect of our daily lives. However, due to their inherent anisotropy, the design process often requires extensive experimental campaigns, making it both time- and cost-intensive. Therefore, significant efforts must be dedicated to analyzing failure mechanisms under mechanical loading and beyond.
Understanding the failure processes in fiber-reinforced polymers is crucial for accurate fatigue estimation. This Special Issue seeks to promote and contribute to the development of novel failure concepts in mechanics and physics, bridging the gap between elastic and continuum deformation theories and the failure of polymers and polymer composites, also including hybrid composites based on natural materials or a combination of various materials. It focuses on fatigue, fracture, and damage mechanics while integrating advancements in theoretical, computational, and experimental mechanics, as well as machine learning techniques.
We welcome both original research articles and comprehensive review papers in this Special Issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Experimental fracture mechanics;
- Numerical analysis of fatigue and fracture processes;
- Utilization of machine learning approaches in the fracture of composites;
- Multiaxial fatigue—experiments and modeling;
- Multiaxial fatigue design considerations, including notches;
- Fatigue life estimation;
- Numerical analysis of fatigue and fracture processes;
- Damage-based mechanics in composite materials;
- Damage accumulation in composite materials;
- Non-destructive methods for assessing composite materials;
- Multidirectional laminates under variable amplitude loading;
- Damage development in fiber-reinforced polymers;
- Fatigue and fracture of hybrid composites based on polymers including natural composites, fiber metal laminates, and others.
Dr. Szymon Duda
Dr. Michal Jan Smolnicki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mechanics of composite materials
- fatigue life estimation
- damage-based modeling
- experimental mechanics
- failure analysis
- solid mechanics
- multiaxial fatigue
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